Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Lead Me in Your Truth

Of David.

Aleph

Beth

Gimel

Daleth

He / Vav

Zayin

Heth

Teth

Yodh

Kaph

Daniel’s Prayer of Supplication

9 In the first year of ^(A)Darius the son of Ahasuerus, from the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans— ² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, discerned in the books the ^(B)number of the years concerning which the word of ^[a]Yahweh came to ^(C)Jeremiah the prophet for the fulfillment of the laying waste of Jerusalem, namely, ^(D)seventy years. ³ So I gave my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. ⁴ And I prayed to Yahweh my God and confessed and said, “Alas, O Lord, the ^(E)great and awesome God, who ^(F)keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments, ^5 (G)we have sinned and committed iniquity and acted wickedly and ^(H)rebelled, even ^(I)turning aside from Your commandments and judgments. ⁶ Moreover, we have not ^(J)listened to Your slaves the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers, and all the people of the land.

⁷ “^(K)To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us ^[b](L)open shame, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in ^(M)all the countries to which You have banished them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You. ⁸ O Yahweh, to us belongs ^[c]open shame, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. ⁹ To the Lord our God belong ^(N)compassion and forgiveness, ^[d]for we have ^(O)rebelled against Him; ¹⁰ nor have we listened to the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in His ^[e]laws which He ^(P)put before us through His slaves the prophets. ¹¹ Indeed ^(Q)all Israel has trespassed against Your law, even turning aside, not listening to Your voice; so the ^(R)curse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the ^[f]law of Moses the ^[g]servant of God, for we have sinned against Him. ¹² Thus He has ^(S)established His words which He had spoken against us and against our ^(T)judges who judged us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has ^(U)not been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written in the ^[h](V)law of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have ^(W)not ^[i]entreated the favor of Yahweh our God by ^(X)turning from our iniquity and acting wisely in Your truth. ¹⁴ Therefore Yahweh has ^(Y)watched over the calamity and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is ^(Z)righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not listened to His voice.

³ what we have ^(A)seen and ^(B)heard we proclaim to you also, so that you may also have fellowship with us; and indeed our ^(C)fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. ^4 (D)And these things we are writing, so that our ^(E)joy may be made complete.

God Is Light

^5 (F)And this is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you, that ^(G)God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. ^6 (H)If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we ^(I)lie and ^(J)do not do the truth; ⁷ but if we ^(K)walk in the Light as ^(L)He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and ^(M)the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. ^8 (N)If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the ^(O)truth is not in us. ^9 (P)If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and ^(Q)to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ^10 (R)If we say that we have not sinned, we ^(S)make Him a liar and ^(T)His word is not in us.