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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

Psalm 17:1-7

A Prayer for Protection

A prayer of David.

17 Lord, hear me begging for fairness;
    listen to my cry for help.
Pay attention to my prayer,
    because I speak the truth.
²You will judge that I am right;
    your eyes can see what is true.
³You have examined my heart;
    you have tested me all night.
You questioned me without finding anything wrong;
    I have not sinned with my mouth.
⁴I have obeyed your commands,
    so I have not done what evil people do.
⁵I have done what you told me;
    I have not failed.

⁶I call to you, God,
    and you answer me.
Listen to me now,
    and hear what I say.
⁷Your love is wonderful.
    By your power you save those who trust you
    from their enemies.

Psalm 17:15

¹⁵Because I have lived right, I will see your face.
When I wake up, I will see your likeness and be satisfied.

Isaiah 14:1-2

Israel Will Return Home

14 The Lord will show mercy to the people of Jacob, and he will again choose the people of Israel. He will settle them in their own land. Then non-Israelite people will join the Israelites and will become a part of the family of Jacob. ²Nations will take the Israelites back to their land. Then those men and women from the other nations will become slaves to Israel in the Lord’s land. In the past the Israelites were their slaves, but now the Israelites will defeat those nations and rule over them.

Philippians 4:10-15

Paul Thanks the Christians

¹⁰I am very happy in the Lord that you have shown your care for me again. You continued to care about me, but there was no way for you to show it. ¹¹I am not telling you this because I need anything. I have learned to be satisfied with the things I have and with everything that happens. ¹²I know how to live when I am poor, and I know how to live when I have plenty. I have learned the secret of being happy at any time in everything that happens, when I have enough to eat and when I go hungry, when I have more than I need and when I do not have enough. ¹³I can do all things through Christ, because he gives me strength.

¹⁴But it was good that you helped me when I needed it. ¹⁵You Philippians remember when I first preached the Good News there. When I left Macedonia, you were the only church that gave me help.

New Century Version (NCV)