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FIRST READING Jeremiah 31:31-34 31 The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out … [Read more…]
FIRST READING Ecclesiastes 5:10-20 10 The lover of money will not be satisfied with money; nor the lover of wealth, with gain. This also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, those who eat them increase; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes? 12 Sweet is the sleep of laborers, … [Read more…]
FIRST READING Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 6 Seek the LORD and live, or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it. 7 Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood, and bring righteousness to the ground! 10 They hate the one who reproves … [Read more…]
FIRST READING Genesis 2:18-25 18 Then the Lord GOD said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” 19 So out of the ground the Lord GOD formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the … [Read more…]
FIRST READING Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 4 The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, “If only we had meat to eat! 5 We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 6 … [Read more…]
FIRST READING Jeremiah 11:18-20 18 It was the LORD who made it known to me, and I knew; then you showed me their evil deeds. 19 But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. And I did not know it was against me that they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the … [Read more…]
FIRST READING Isaiah 50:4-10 4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens — wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught. 5 The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I … [Read more…]
First Reading Isaiah 35:4-7a 4 Say to those who are of a fearful heart, “Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will come and save you.” 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; 6 … [Read more…]
FIRST READING Deuteronomy 4:1–2, 6–9 1 So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. 2 You must neither add anything to what I command … [Read more…]
FIRST READING Isaiah 29:11–19 11 The vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. If it is given to those who can read, with the command, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot, for it is sealed.” 12 And if it is given to those who cannot read, saying, … [Read more…]