Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
2 When Yahweh first spoke through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “(A)Go, take for yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for (B)the land commits flagrant harlotry, [a]forsaking Yahweh.” 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and (C)gave birth to a son for him. 4 And Yahweh said to him, “Name him (D)Jezreel; for yet a little while, and (E)I will visit the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and (F)I will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. 5 And it will be in that day, that I will (G)break the bow of Israel in the (H)valley of Jezreel.”
6 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. And [b]Yahweh said to him, “Name her [c]Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer (I)have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them. 7 But I will have (J)compassion on the house of Judah and (K)save them by Yahweh their God, and I will not save them by (L)bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
8 Then she weaned Lo-ruhamah. And she conceived and gave birth to a son. 9 And [d]Yahweh said, “Name him [e]Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not [f]your God.”
Turn Us Back, O God
For the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.
85 O Yahweh, You showed (A)favor to Your land;
You [a](B)returned the fortunes of Jacob.
2 You (C)forgave the iniquity of Your people;
You (D)covered all their sin. [b]Selah.
3 You (E)withdrew all Your fury;
You (F)turned back from Your burning anger.
4 (G)Turn us back, O God of our salvation,
And (H)cause Your vexation toward us to cease.
5 Will (I)You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your anger from generation to generation?
6 Will You not Yourself (J)return to [c]revive us,
That Your people may (K)be glad in You?
7 Show us, O Yahweh, Your lovingkindness,
And (L)give us Your salvation.
8 Let me hear what the God, Yahweh, will speak;
For He will (M)speak peace to His people, [d]to His holy ones;
But let them not (N)turn back to [e]folly.
9 Surely (O)His salvation is near to those who [f]fear Him,
That (P)glory may dwell in our land.
10 (Q)Lovingkindness and [g]truth have met together;
(R)Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 [h]Truth (S)springs up from the earth,
And righteousness looks down from heaven.
12 Indeed, (T)Yahweh will give what is good,
And our (U)land will yield its produce.
13 (V)Righteousness will go before Him
And will establish the way of His steps.
6 Therefore as you received (A)Christ Jesus the Lord, so [a](B)walk in Him, 7 having been firmly (C)rooted and being (D)built up in Him, and having been (E)established [b]in your faith—just as you (F)were instructed—and abounding [c]with thanksgiving.
8 (G)See to it that no one takes you captive through (H)philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the (I)elementary principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him all the (J)fullness of Deity dwells bodily, 10 and in Him you have been (K)filled, (L)who is the head [d]over all (M)rule and authority; 11 in whom (N)you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of (O)the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been (P)buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also (Q)raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who (R)raised Him from the dead. 13 And you being (S)dead [e]in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He (T)made you alive with Him, having graciously forgiven us all our transgressions. 14 Having canceled out (U)the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us which was hostile to us, (V)He also has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having [f](W)disarmed the (X)rulers and authorities, He (Y)made a public display of them, having (Z)triumphed over them in [g]Him.
16 Therefore, no one is to (A)judge you in (B)food and (C)drink, or in respect to a (D)festival or a (E)new moon or a (F)Sabbath [a]day— 17 things which are only a (G)shadow of what is to come; but the [b]substance [c]belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one keep [d](H)defrauding you of your prize by (I)delighting in [e]self-abasement and the worship of the angels, going into detail about visions he has seen, (J)being puffed up for nothing by his (K)fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to (L)the head, from whom (M)the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and [f]ligaments, grows with a growth [g]that is from God.
The Lord’s Prayer
11 And it happened that while [a]Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.” 2 And He said to them, “(A)When you pray, say:
‘[b]Father, hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
3 Give us (B)each day our [c]daily bread.
4 And forgive us our sins,
For we ourselves also forgive everyone who (C)is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.’”
5 Then He said to them, “Which of you has a friend and will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and from inside he answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children [d]and I are in bed; I cannot rise up and give you anything.’ 8 I tell you, even though he will not arise and give him anything because he is his friend, yet (D)because of his [e]persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
9 “So I say to you, [f](E)ask, and it will be given to you; [g]seek, and you will find; [h]knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened. 11 But what father among you, if his son asks for a [i]fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish? 12 Or, if his son asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 (F)If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your [j]heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
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