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Daily Office Readings

Monday, September 07, 2009

Psalms

Psalm 41
^{To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1}Blessed is he who considers the poor;
The LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

²The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive,
And he will be blessed on the earth;
You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

³The LORD will strengthen him on his bed of illness;
You will sustain him on his sickbed.

⁴I said, "LORD, be merciful to me;
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You."

⁵My enemies speak evil of me:
"When will he die, and his name perish?"

⁶And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies;
His heart gathers iniquity to itself;
When he goes out, he tells it.

⁷All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they devise my hurt.

⁸"An evil disease," they say, "clings to him.
And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more."

⁹Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰But You, O LORD, be merciful to me, and raise me up,
That I may repay them.

¹¹By this I know that You are well pleased with me,
Because my enemy does not triumph over me.

¹²As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
And set me before Your face forever.

¹³Blessed be the LORD God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!
Amen and Amen.
-- NKJV

Psalm 52
^{To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of David when Doeg the Edomite went and told Saul, and said to him, "David has gone to the house of Ahimelech."
1}Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The goodness of God endures continually.

²Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

³You love evil more than good,
Lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah

⁴You love all devouring words,
You deceitful tongue.

⁵God shall likewise destroy you forever;
He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

⁶The righteous also shall see and fear,
And shall laugh at him, saying,

⁷"Here is the man who did not make God his strength,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches,
And strengthened himself in his wickedness."

⁸But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

⁹I will praise You forever,
Because You have done it;
And in the presence of Your saints
I will wait on Your name, for it is good.
-- NKJV



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Psalm 44
^{To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah.
1}We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us,
The deeds You did in their days,
In days of old:

²You drove out the nations with Your hand,
But them You planted;
You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.

³For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them;
But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
Because You favored them.

⁴You are my King, O God;
Command victories for Jacob.

⁵Through You we will push down our enemies;
Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.

⁶For I will not trust in my bow,
Nor shall my sword save me.

⁷But You have saved us from our enemies,
And have put to shame those who hated us.

⁸In God we boast all day long,
And praise Your name forever. Selah

⁹But You have cast us off and put us to shame,
And You do not go out with our armies.

¹⁰You make us turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

¹¹You have given us up like sheep intended for food,
And have scattered us among the nations.

¹²You sell Your people for next to nothing,
And are not enriched by selling them.

¹³You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and a derision to those all around us.

¹⁴You make us a byword among the nations,
A shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁵My dishonor is continually before me,
And the shame of my face has covered me,

¹⁶Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
Because of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back,
Nor have our steps departed from Your way;

¹⁹But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals,
And covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,

²¹Would not God search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.

²²Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Arise! Do not cast us off forever.

²⁴Why do You hide Your face,
And forget our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
Our body clings to the ground.

²⁶Arise for our help,
And redeem us for Your mercies' sake.
-- NKJV

Old Testament Reading

1 Kings 13:1-10
¹And behold, a man of God went from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. ²Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar! Thus says the LORD: 'Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall be burned on you.'" ³And he gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign which the LORD has spoken: Surely the altar shall split apart, and the ashes on it shall be poured out." ⁴So it came to pass when King Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, who cried out against the altar in Bethel, that he stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Arrest him!" Then his hand, which he stretched out toward him, withered, so that he could not pull it back to himself. ⁵The altar also was split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD. ⁶Then the king answered and said to the man of God, "Please entreat the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me." So the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored to him, and became as before. ⁷Then the king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward." ⁸But the man of God said to the king, "If you were to give me half your house, I would not go in with you; nor would I eat bread nor drink water in this place. ⁹For so it was commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, 'You shall not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way you came.'" ¹⁰So he went another way and did not return by the way he came to Bethel. -- NKJV

New Testament Reading

Philippians 1:1-11
¹Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: ²Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ³I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, ⁴always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, ⁵for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, ⁶being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; ⁷just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace. ⁸For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ. ⁹And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, ¹⁰that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, ¹¹being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. -- NKJV

Gospel Reading

Mark 15:40-47
⁴⁰There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joses, and Salome, ⁴¹who also followed Him and ministered to Him when He was in Galilee, and many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem. ⁴²Now when evening had come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath, ⁴³Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent council member, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, coming and taking courage, went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ⁴⁴Pilate marveled that He was already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him if He had been dead for some time. ⁴⁵So when he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. ⁴⁶Then he bought fine linen, took Him down, and wrapped Him in the linen. And he laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. ⁴⁷And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses observed where He was laid. -- NKJV

 

 

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