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March 11 (3 Lent): Ps. [83] or 42, 43; Ps. 85, 86; Gen. 46:1-7, 28-34; 1 Cor. 9:1-15; Mark 6:30-46 (ESV)
Psalm 83 ( Listen ) O God, Do Not Keep Silence A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. 83:1? O God, do not keep silence; ?? do not hold your peace or be still, O God! For behold, your enemies make an uproar; ?? those who hate you have raised their heads. They lay crafty plans against your people; ?? they consult together against your treasured ones. They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; ?? let the name of Israel be remembered no more!” For they conspire with one accord; ?? against you they make a covenant— the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, ?? Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, ?? Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Asshur also has joined them; ?? they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. ???? Selah Do to them as you did to Midian, ?? as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon, who were destroyed at En-dor, ?? who became dung for the ground. Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, ?? all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves ?? of the pastures of God.” O my God, make them like whirling dust, ?? like chaff before the wind. As fire consumes the forest, ?? as the flame sets the mountains ablaze, so may you pursue them with your tempest ?? and terrify them with your hurricane! Fill their faces with shame, ?? that they may seek your name, O LORD. Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; ?? let them perish in disgrace, that they may know that you alone, ?? whose name is the LORD, ?? are the Most High over all the earth. Psalm 42 ( Listen ) Book Two Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul? To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. 42:1? As a deer pants for flowing streams, ?? so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, ?? for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food ?? day and night, while they say to me all the day long, ?? “Where is your God?” These things I remember, ?? as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng ?? and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, ?? a multitude keeping festival. Why are you cast down, O my soul, ?? and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, ?? my salvation 6? and my God. My soul is cast down within me; ?? therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, ?? from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep ?? at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves ?? have gone over me. By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, ?? and at night his song is with me, ?? a prayer to the God of my life. I say to God, my rock: ?? “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning ?? because of the oppression of the enemy?” As with a deadly wound in my bones, ?? my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, ?? “Where is your God?” Why are you cast down, O my soul, ?? and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, ?? my salvation and my God. Psalm 43 ( Listen ) Send Out Your Light and Your Truth 43:1? Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause ?? against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man ?? deliver me! For you are the God in whom I take refuge; ?? why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning ?? because of the oppression of the enemy? Send out your light and your truth; ?? let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill ?? and to your dwelling! Then I will go to the altar of God, ?? to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, ?? O God, my God. Why are you cast down, O my soul, ?? and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, ?? my salvation and my God. Psalm 85 ( Listen ) Revive Us Again To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. 85:1? LORD, you were favorable to your land; ?? you restored the fortunes of Jacob. You forgave the iniquity of your people; ?? you covered all their sin. ???? Selah You withdrew all your wrath; ?? you turned from your hot anger. Restore us again, O God of our salvation, ?? and put away your indignation toward us! Will you be angry with us forever? ?? Will you prolong your anger to all generations? Will you not revive us again, ?? that your people may rejoice in you? Show us your steadfast love, O LORD, ?? and grant us your salvation. Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, ?? for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; ?? but let them not turn back to folly. Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, ?? that glory may dwell in our land. Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; ?? righteousness and peace kiss each other. Faithfulness springs up from the ground, ?? and righteousness looks down from the sky. Yes, the LORD will give what is good, ?? and our land will yield its increase. Righteousness will go before him ?? and make his footsteps a way. Psalm 86 ( Listen ) Great Is Your Steadfast Love A Prayer of David. 86:1? Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, ?? for I am poor and needy. Preserve my life, for I am godly; ?? save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God. Be gracious to me, O Lord, ?? for to you do I cry all the day. Gladden the soul of your servant, ?? for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, ?? abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; ?? listen to my plea for grace. In the day of my trouble I call upon you, ?? for you answer me. There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, ?? nor are there any works like yours. All the nations you have made shall come ?? and worship before you, O Lord, ?? and shall glorify your name. For you are great and do wondrous things; ?? you alone are God. Teach me your way, O LORD, ?? that I may walk in your truth; ?? unite my heart to fear your name. I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, ?? and I will glorify your name forever. For great is your steadfast love toward me; ?? you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol. O God, insolent men have risen up against me; ?? a band of ruthless men seeks my life, ?? and they do not set you before them. But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, ?? slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. Turn to me and be gracious to me; ?? give your strength to your servant, ?? and save the son of your maidservant. Show me a sign of your favor, ?? that those who hate me may see and be put to shame ?? because you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me. Genesis 46:1-7 ( Listen ) Joseph Brings His Family to Egypt 46:1? So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here am I.” Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation. I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.” Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him. They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him, his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters. All his offspring he brought with him into Egypt. Genesis 46:28-34 ( Listen ) Jacob and Joseph Reunited He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while. Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.” Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.” 1 Corinthians 9:1-15 ( Listen ) Paul Surrenders His Rights 9:1? Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have the right to eat and drink? Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living? Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk? Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same? For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ. Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings? In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel. But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting. Mark 6:30-46 ( Listen ) Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late. Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?” And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.” Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. And taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men. Jesus Walks on the Water Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray. Footnotes [1] 83:13 Or like a tumbleweed [2] 42:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term [3] 42:2 Revocalization yields and see the face of God [4] 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face ; also verse 11 and 43:5 [5] 9:5 Greek a sister as wife [6] 6:37 A denarius was a day’s wage for a laborer The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright ??2001 by Crossway Bibles , a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Quotation information . This reading plan is adapted from the Daily Office Lectionary found in The Book of Common Prayer .
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March 11 (3 Lent): Ps. [83] or 42, 43; Ps. 85, 86; Gen. 46:1-7, 28-34; 1 Cor. 9:1-15; Mark 6:30-46 (ESV)
March 11: Deuteronomy 14-16, Mark 13:14-37
Deuteronomy 14-16 ( Listen ) Clean and Unclean Food 14:1? “You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you. And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch. “Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat. And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. “You may eat all clean birds. But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, the kite, the falcon of any kind; every raven of any kind; the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind; the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant, the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat. And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten. All clean winged things you may eat. “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Tithes “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always. And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there, then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household. And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you. “At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns. And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do. The Sabbatical Year 15:1? “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed. Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release. But there will be no poor among you; for the LORD will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess— if only you will strictly obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today. For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ “If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you. And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same. It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do. “All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. You shall eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place that the LORD will choose. But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind or has any serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. You shall eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer. Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water. Passover 16:1? “Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the LORD will choose, to make his name dwell there. You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, but at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt. And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it. The Feast of Weeks “You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you. And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes. The Feast of Booths “You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. For seven days you shall keep the feast to the LORD your God at the place that the LORD will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful. “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. Justice “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Forbidden Forms of Worship “You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make. And you shall not set up a pillar, which the LORD your God hates. Mark 13:14-37 ( Listen ) The Abomination of Desolation “But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let the one who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything out, and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! Pray that it may not happen in winter. For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be. And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days. And then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand. The Coming of the Son of Man “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven. The Lesson of the Fig Tree “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. No One Knows That Day or Hour “But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning— lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.” ( ESV ) Footnotes [1] 14:5 Or addax [2] 14:12 The identity of many of these birds is uncertain [3] 15:9 Or be evil ; also verse 10 [4] 15:12 Or sells himself [5] 13:33 Some manuscripts add and pray [6] 13:34 Greek bondservants [7] 13:35 That is, the third watch of the night, between midnight and 3 a.m.
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March 11: Deuteronomy 14-16, Mark 13:14-37