Daily Readings For November 2

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Daily Readings for Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Morning Psalm 89:1-18

1   I will sing of your steadfast love, O LORD, forever;
          with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations.
2   I declare that your steadfast love is established forever;
          your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.

          I have sworn to my servant David:
4   ‘I will establish your descendants forever,
          and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah

5   Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD,
          your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones.
6   For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD?
          Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
7   a God feared in the council of the holy ones,
          great and awesome above all that are around him?
8   O LORD God of hosts,
          who is as mighty as you, O LORD?
          Your faithfulness surrounds you.
9   You rule the raging of the sea;
          when its waves rise, you still them.
10  You crushed Rahab like a carcass;
          you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
11  The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours;
          the world and all that is in it — you have founded them.
12  The north and the south — you created them;
          Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.
13  You have a mighty arm;
          strong is your hand, high your right hand.
14  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
          steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
15  Happy are the people who know the festal shout,
          who walk, O LORD, in the light of your countenance;
16  they exult in your name all day long,
          and extol your righteousness.
17  For you are the glory of their strength;
          by your favor our horn is exalted.
18  For our shield belongs to the LORD,
          our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Morning Psalm 147:1-11

1   Praise the Lord!
          How good it is to sing praises to our God;
          for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.
2   The Lord builds up Jerusalem;
          he gathers the outcasts of Israel.
3   He heals the brokenhearted,
          and binds up their wounds.
4   He determines the number of the stars;
          he gives to all of them their names.
5   Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;
          his understanding is beyond measure.
6   The Lord lifts up the downtrodden;
          he casts the wicked to the ground.

7   Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving;
          make melody to our God on the lyre.
8   He covers the heavens with clouds,
          prepares rain for the earth,
          makes grass grow on the hills.
9   He gives to the animals their food,
          and to the young ravens when they cry.
10  His delight is not in the strength of the horse,
          nor his pleasure in the speed of a runner;
11  but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him,
          in those who hope in his steadfast love.

First Reading Zephaniah 2:1-15

1Gather together, gather,
     O shameless nation,
2before you are driven away
     like the drifting chaff,
before there comes upon you
     the fierce anger of the Lord,
before there comes upon you
     the day of the Lord’s wrath.
3Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,
     who do his commands;
seek righteousness, seek humility;
     perhaps you may be hidden
     on the day of the Lord’s wrath.
4For Gaza shall be deserted,
     and Ashkelon shall become a desolation;
Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon,      and Ekron shall be uprooted.

5Ah, inhabitants of the sea coast,
     you nation of the Cherethites!
The word of the Lord is against you,
     O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
     and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
6And you, O sea coast, shall be pastures,
     meadows for shepherds
     and folds for flocks.
7The sea coast shall become the possession
     of the remnant of the house of Judah,
     on which they shall pasture,
and in the houses of Ashkelon
     they shall lie down at evening.
For the Lord their God will be mindful of them
     and restore their fortunes.

8I have heard the taunts of Moab
     and the revilings of the Ammonites,
how they have taunted my people
     and made boasts against their territory.
9Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts,
     the God of Israel,
Moab shall become like Sodom
     and the Ammonites like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt-pits,
     and a waste for ever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
     and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.
10This shall be their lot in return for their pride,
     because they scoffed and boasted
     against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11The Lord will be terrible against them;
     he will shrivel all the gods of the earth,
and to him shall bow down,
     each in its place,
     all the coasts and islands of the nations.

12You also, O Ethiopians,
     shall be killed by my sword.

13And he will stretch out his hand against the north,
     and destroy Assyria;
and he will make Nineveh a desolation,
     a dry waste like the desert.
14Herds shall lie down in it,
     every wild animal;
the desert-owl and the screech-owl
     shall lodge on its capitals;
the owl shall hoot at the window,
     the raven croak on the threshold;
     for its cedar-work will be laid bare.
15Is this the exultant city
     that lived secure,
that said to itself,
     "I am, and there is no one else"?
What a desolation it has become,
     a lair for wild animals!
Everyone who passes by it
     hisses and shakes the fist.

Second Reading Revelation 16:1-11

1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God."

2So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth, and a foul and painful sore came on those who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped its image.

3The second angel poured his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing in the sea died.

4The third angel poured his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. 5And I heard the angel of the waters say, "You are just, O Holy One, who are and were, for you have judged these things; 6because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!" 7And I heard the altar respond, "Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, your judgments are true and just!"

8The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch them with fire; 9they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.

10The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness; people gnawed their tongues in agony, 11and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and sores, and they did not repent of their deeds.

Gospel Reading Luke 13:10-17

10Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. 12When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, "Woman, you are set free from your ailment." 13When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. 14But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day." 15But the Lord answered him and said, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? 16And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?" 17When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.

Evening Psalm 1

1   Happy are those
          who do not follow the advice of the wicked,
     or take the path that sinners tread,
          or sit in the seat of scoffers;

2   but their delight is in the law of the LORD,
          and on his law they meditate day and night.
3   They are like trees
          planted by streams of water,
     which yield their fruit in its season,
          and their leaves do not wither.
     In all that they do, they prosper.

4   The wicked are not so,
          but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5   Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
          nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6   for the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
          but the way of the wicked will perish.

Evening Psalm 33

1   Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous.
          Praise befits the upright.
2   Praise the LORD with the lyre;
          make melody to him with the harp of ten strings.
3   Sing to him a new song;
          play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

4   For the word of the LORD is upright,
          and all his work is done in faithfulness.
5   He loves righteousness and justice;
          the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.

6   By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,
          and all their host by the breath of his mouth.
7   He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;
          he put the deeps in storehouses.

8   Let all the earth fear the LORD;
9   For he spoke, and it came to be;
          he commanded, and it stood firm.

10  The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
          he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
11  The counsel of the LORD stands forever,
          the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
12   Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD,
          the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.

13  The LORD looks down from heaven;
          he sees all humankind.
14  From where he sits enthroned he watches
          all the inhabitants of the earth —
15  he who fashions the hearts of them all,
          and observes all their deeds.
16  A king is not saved by his great army;
          a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
17  The war horse is a vain hope for victory,
          and by its great might it cannot save.

18  Truly the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him,
          on those who hope in his steadfast love,
19  to deliver their soul from death,
          and to keep them alive in famine.

20  Our soul waits for the LORD;
          he is our help and shield.
21  Our heart is glad in him,
          because we trust in his holy name.
22  Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us,
          even as we hope in you.