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Book of Common Prayer

Daily Old and New Testament readings based on the Book of Common Prayer.
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Psalm 85

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.

85 Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land.
    You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people.
    You have covered all their sin. Selah.
You have taken away all your wrath.
    You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
Turn us, God of our salvation,
    and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
Will you be angry with us forever?
    Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
Won’t you revive us again,
    that your people may rejoice in you?
Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh.
    Grant us your salvation.
I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak,
    for he will speak peace to his people, his saints;
    but let them not turn again to folly.
Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
    that glory may dwell in our land.
10 Mercy and truth meet together.
    Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth springs out of the earth.
    Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
12 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good.
    Our land will yield its increase.
13 Righteousness goes before him,
    and prepares the way for his steps.

Psalm 87

A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.

87 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
    Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.
I will record Rahab[a] and Babylon among those who acknowledge me.
    Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia:
    “This one was born there.”
Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;”
    the Most High himself will establish her.
Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples,
    “This one was born there.” Selah.
Those who sing as well as those who dance say,
    “All my springs are in you.”

Psalm 136

136 Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good,
    for his loving kindness endures forever.
Give thanks to the God of gods,
    for his loving kindness endures forever.
Give thanks to the Lord of lords,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
to him who alone does great wonders,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
to him who by understanding made the heavens,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
to him who spread out the earth above the waters,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
to him who made the great lights,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
the sun to rule by day,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
the moon and stars to rule by night,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
10 to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
11 and brought out Israel from among them,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
12 with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
13 to him who divided the Red Sea apart,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
14 and made Israel to pass through the middle of it,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
15 but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
16 to him who led his people through the wilderness,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
17 to him who struck great kings,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
18 and killed mighty kings,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
19 Sihon king of the Amorites,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
20 Og king of Bashan,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
21 and gave their land as an inheritance,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
22 even a heritage to Israel his servant,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
23 who remembered us in our low estate,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
24 and has delivered us from our adversaries,
    for his loving kindness endures forever;
25 who gives food to every creature,
    for his loving kindness endures forever.
26 Oh give thanks to the God of heaven,
    for his loving kindness endures forever.

Exodus 3:1-12

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb. Yahweh’s[a] angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. Moses said, “I will go now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!”

He said, “Here I am.”

He said, “Don’t come close. Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing on is holy ground.” Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”

Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

11 Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

12 He said, “Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

Hebrews 11:23-31

23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time, 26 considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.

30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.

31 By faith Rahab the prostitute didn’t perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.

John 14:6-14

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.”

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. 12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. 13 Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

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