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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
Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
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Psalm 137

Psalm 137

Lament of the Exiles

1 By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.(A)
2 There we hung up our lyres
on the poplar trees,(B)
3 for our captors there asked us for songs,
and our tormentors, for rejoicing:
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”(C)

4 How can we sing the Lord’s song
on foreign soil?(D)
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.(E)
6 May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!(F)

7 Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day[a] at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!”(G)
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.(H)
9 Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.(I)

Lamentations 2:13-22

מ Mem

13 What can I say on your behalf?
What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
What can I liken you to,
so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
Who can heal you?(A)

נ Nun

14 Your prophets saw visions for you
that were empty and deceptive;(B)
they did not reveal your guilt
and so restore your fortunes.(C)
They saw oracles for you
that were empty and misleading.

ס Samek

15 All who pass by
scornfully clap their hands(D) at you.
They mock[a](E) and shake their heads(F)
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,(G)
the joy of the whole earth?(H)

פ Pe

16 All your enemies
open their mouths against you.(I)
They hiss and gnash their teeth,(J)
saying, “We have swallowed her up.(K)
This is the day we have waited for!
We have lived to see it.”

ע Ayin

17 The Lord has done what He planned;
He has accomplished His decree,
which He ordained in days of old.
He has demolished without compassion,(L)
letting the enemy gloat over you
and exalting the horn of your adversaries.

צ Tsade

18 The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord.
Wall of Daughter Zion,(M)
let your tears run down like a river
day and night.(N)
Give yourself no relief
and your[b] eyes no rest.

ק Qof

19 Arise, cry out in the night
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord’s presence.(O)
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.(P)

ר Resh

20 Lord, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,(Q)
the infants they have nurtured?[c]
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?

שׁ Shin

21 Both young and old
are lying on the ground in the streets.
My young men and women
have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
slaughtering without compassion.(R)

ת Tav

22 You summoned my attackers[d] on every side,(S)
as if for an appointed festival day;
on the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has destroyed
those I nurtured[e] and reared.

1 John 5:1-5

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God,(A) and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him. 2 This is how we know that we love God’s children when we love God and obey[a] His commands. 3 For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,(B) 4 because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. 5 And who is the one who conquers the world(C) but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?(D)

1 John 5:13-21

13 I have written these things to you who believe in the name(A) of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Effective Prayer

14 Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask(B) anything according to His will, He hears us.(C) 15 And if we know that He hears whatever we ask,(D) we know that we have what we have asked Him for.(E)

16 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not bring death, he should ask, and God[a] will give life to him—to those who commit sin that doesn’t bring death. There is sin[b] that brings death. I am not saying he should pray about that. 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin that does not bring death.

Conclusion

18 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not sin, but the One[c] who is born of God keeps him,[d][e](F) and the evil one does not touch him.

19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the sway of the evil one.

20 And we know that the Son of God has come(G) and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One.[f] We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ.(H) He is the true God and eternal life.

21 Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

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