FIRST READING       Isaiah 25:1-9 1 O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure. 2 For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens is a […]

FIRST READING     Isaiah 5:1-7 1 Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 2 He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine […]

FIRST READING    Jonah 3:10-4:11 3:10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it. 4:1 But this was very displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry. 2 He prayed […]

FIRST READING       Genesis 50:15-21 15 Realizing that their father was dead, Joseph’s brothers said, ‘What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong that we did to him?’ 16 So they approached Joseph, saying, ‘Your father gave this instruction before he died, 17 “Say to […]

FIRST READING         Isaiah 51:1-6 1 Listen to me, you that pursue righteousness, you that seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. 2 Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called […]

FIRST READING    Isaiah 56:1, 6-8 1 Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. 6 And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all […]

FIRST READING         Isaiah 55:6-9 6 Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; 7 let the wicked forsake their way, and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. […]

FIRST READING         Isaiah 55:10-13 10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,  and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout,  giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;   it shall not return to […]

FIRST READING           Jeremiah 20:7-13 Jeremiah accuses God of forcing him into a ministry that only brings him contempt and persecution. Yet Jeremiah is confident that God will be a strong protector against his enemies and commits his life into God’s hands.. 7 O Lord, you have enticed me, and I was enticed; you have overpowered […]