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Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with thematically matched Old and New Testament readings.
Duration: 1245 days
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
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Psalm 113

113 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people:

Judea made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back.

The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?

Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?

At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence of the God of Jacob:

Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters.

Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.

10 For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the gentiles should say: Where is their God?

11 But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would.

12 The idols of the gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men.

13 They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.

14 They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not.

15 They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat.

16 Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.

17 The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.

18 The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.

19 They that fear the Lord hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.

20 The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron.

21 He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great.

22 May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children.

23 Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

24 The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men.

25 The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.

26 But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever.

Exodus 23:1-9

23 Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness for a wicked person.

Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.

Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.

If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.

If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.

Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.

Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the wicked.

Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.

Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Romans 3:1-8

What advantage then hath the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?

Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

For what if some of them have not believed? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid.

But God is true; and every man a liar, as it is written, That thou mayest be justified in thy words, and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

(I speak according to man.) God forbid: otherwise how shall God judge this world?

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

And not rather (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil, that there may come good? whose damnation is just.