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Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with sequential stories told across multiple weeks.
Duration: 1245 days
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
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Psalm 69:1-3

Psalm 69[a]

A Cry of Anguish in Great Distress

For the leader; according to “Lilies.”[b] Of David.

I

Save me, God,
    for the waters[c] have reached my neck.(A)
I have sunk into the mire of the deep,
    where there is no foothold.
I have gone down to the watery depths;
    the flood overwhelms me.(B)

Psalm 69:13-16

13 Those who sit in the gate gossip about me;
    drunkards make me the butt of songs.

III

14 But I will pray to you, Lord,
    at a favorable time.
God, in your abundant kindness, answer me
    with your sure deliverance.(A)
15 Rescue me from the mire,(B)
    and do not let me sink.
Rescue me from those who hate me
    and from the watery depths.
16 Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me,
    nor the deep swallow me,
    nor the pit close its mouth over me.

Psalm 69:30-36

V

30 But here I am miserable and in pain;
    let your saving help protect me, God,
31 [a]That I may praise God’s name in song
    and glorify it with thanksgiving.
32 That will please the Lord more than oxen,
    more than bulls with horns and hooves:(A)
33 “See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
    you who seek God, take heart!(B)
34 For the Lord hears the poor,
    and does not spurn those in bondage.
35 Let the heaven and the earth praise him,
    the seas and whatever moves in them!”

VI

36 For God will rescue Zion,
    and rebuild the cities of Judah.(C)
They will dwell there and possess it;

Genesis 11:1-9

Chapter 11

Tower of Babel.[a] The whole world had the same language and the same words. When they were migrating from the east, they came to a valley in the land of Shinar[b] and settled there. They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky,[c] and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built. Then the Lord said: If now, while they are one people and all have the same language, they have started to do this, nothing they presume to do will be out of their reach. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another. So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel,[d] because there the Lord confused the speech of all the world. From there the Lord scattered them over all the earth.

Descendants from Shem to Abraham.[e]

Matthew 7:13-20

The Narrow Gate. 13 [a]“Enter through the narrow gate;[b] for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many.(A) 14 How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.

False Prophets.[c] 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves.(B) 16 (C)By their fruits you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 So by their fruits you will know them.(D)

New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

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