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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 Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)
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Psalm 123

Prayer for the Lord’s Help.

A Song of Ascents.

123 To You I (A)lift up my eyes,
O You who (B)are enthroned in the heavens!
2 Behold, as the eyes of (C)servants look to the hand of their master,
As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
So our (D)eyes look to the Lord our God,
Until He is gracious to us.

3 (E)Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,
For we are greatly filled (F)with contempt.
4 Our soul is greatly filled
With the (G)scoffing of (H)those who are at ease,
And with the (I)contempt of the proud.

Judges 5:1-12

The Song of Deborah and Barak

5 (A)Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

2 “(B)That [a]the leaders led in Israel,
That (C)the people volunteered,
Bless the Lord!
3 “Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers!
(D)I—to the Lord, I will sing,
I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel.
4 “(E)Lord, when You went out from Seir,
When You marched from the field of Edom,
(F)The earth quaked, the heavens also dripped,
Even the clouds dripped water.
5 “(G)The mountains [b]quaked at the presence of the Lord,
(H)This Sinai, at the presence of the Lord, the God of Israel.

6 “In the days of (I)Shamgar the son of Anath,
In the days of (J)Jael, the highways [c]were deserted,
And travelers [d]went by [e]roundabout ways.
7 “The peasantry ceased, they ceased in Israel,
Until I, Deborah, arose,
Until I arose, a mother in Israel.
8 “(K)New gods were chosen;
Then war was in the gates.
Not a shield or a spear was seen
Among forty thousand in Israel.
9 “My heart goes out to (L)the commanders of Israel,
The volunteers among the people;
Bless the Lord!
10 “(M)You who ride on [f]white donkeys,
You who sit on rich carpets,
And you who travel on the road—[g]sing!
11 “At the sound of those who divide flocks among (N)the watering places,
There they shall recount (O)the righteous deeds of the Lord,
The righteous deeds for His [h]peasantry in Israel.
Then the people of the Lord went down (P)to the gates.

12 “(Q)Awake, awake, Deborah;
Awake, awake, [i]sing a song!
Arise, Barak, and (R)take away your captives, O son of Abinoam.

Matthew 12:43-45

43 “(A)Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and (B)the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”

New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)

New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.

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