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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…]

FIRST READING    Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18 1 Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Long ago your … [Read more…]

First Reading                   Exodus 16:2–15 2 The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.  3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread; for … [Read more…]

First Reading                                Genesis 9:8–17 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with … [Read more…]

First Reading                             Jeremiah 23:1–6 1 Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD. 2 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not … [Read more…]

First Reading                                       Amos 7:7–15 7 This is what he showed me:  the LORD was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.  8 And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”  And I said, “A plumb line.”  Then the LORD said, “See, I am … [Read more…]

First Reading                                                                                         Ezekiel 2:1–5 1 He said to me:  O mortal, stand up on your feet, and I will speak with you.  2 And when he spoke to me, a spirit entered into me and set me on my feet; and I heard him speaking to me.  3 He said to me, Mortal, … [Read more…]