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Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with sequential stories told across multiple weeks.
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Psalm 52

(A special psalm by David for the music leader. He wrote this when Doeg from Edom went to Saul and said, “David has gone to Ahimelech's house.”)

God Is in Control

1 (A) You people may be strong
    and brag about your sins,
but God can be trusted
    day after day.
2 You plan brutal crimes,
and your lying words cut
    like a sharp razor.
3 You would rather do evil
than good, and tell lies
    than speak the truth.
4 You love to say cruel things,
    and your words are a trap.

5 God will destroy you forever!
He will grab you and drag you
    from your homes.
You will be uprooted
    and left to die.
6 When good people see
    this fearsome sight,
they will laugh and say,
7     “Just look at them now!
Instead of trusting God,
they trusted their wealth
    and their cruelty.”

8 But I am like an olive tree
    growing in God's house,
and I can count on his love
    forever and ever.
9 I will always thank God
    for what he has done;
I will praise his good name
    when his people meet.

Amos 5:10-17

Choose Good Instead of Evil!

The Lord said:

10 You people hate judges
    and honest witnesses;
11 you abuse the poor and demand
    heavy taxes from them.
You have built expensive homes,
    but you won't enjoy them;
you have planted vineyards,
    but you will get no wine.
12 I am the Lord, and I know
    your terrible sins.
You cheat honest people
and take bribes;
    you rob the poor of justice.
13 Times are so evil
that anyone with good sense
    will keep quiet.

14 If you really want to live,
you must stop doing wrong
    and start doing right.
I, the Lord God All-Powerful,
will then be on your side,
    just as you claim I am.
15 Choose good instead of evil!
    See that justice is done.
Maybe I, the Lord All-Powerful,
will be kind to what's left
    of your people.[a]

Judgment Is Coming

16 This is what the Lord has sworn:

Noisy crying will be heard
    in every town and street.
Even farmers will be told
    to mourn for the dead,
together with those
    who are paid to mourn.[b]
17 Your vineyards will be filled
with crying and weeping,[c]
    because I will punish you.
I, the Lord, have spoken!

Hebrews 5:1-6

5 Every high priest is appointed to help others by offering gifts and sacrifices to God because of their sins. 2 A high priest has weaknesses of his own, and he feels sorry for foolish and sinful people. 3 (A) This is why he must offer sacrifices for his own sins and for the sins of others. 4 (B) But no one can have the honor of being a high priest simply by wanting to be one. Only God can choose a priest, and God is the one who chose Aaron.

5 (C) This is how it was with Christ. He became a high priest, but not just because he wanted the honor of being one. It was God who told him,

“You are my Son, because today
    I have become your Father!”

6 (D) In another place, God says,

“You are a priest forever
    just like Melchizedek.”[a]

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

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