Friday in Season after Pentecost

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Genesis 27:1-17

Verse 1. When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied. Verse 2. “Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death. Verse 3. Take your weapons — your quiver and bow — and go out into the field to hunt some game for me. Verse 4. Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.” Verse 5. Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back, Verse 6. Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau, Verse 7. ‘Bring me some game and prepare me a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’ Verse 8. Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you. Verse 9. Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father— the kind he loves. Verse 10. Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.” Verse 11. Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned. Verse 12. What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.” Verse 13. His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.” Verse 14. So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved. Verse 15. And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob. Verse 16. She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. Verse 17. Then she handed her son Jacob the tasty food and bread she had made.

PSALM

Psalm 45:10-17

Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,

and the king will desire your beauty; bow to him, for he is your lord.

The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; men of wealth will seek your favor.

All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.

In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.

They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.

Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.

I will commemorate your name through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you forever and ever.

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Zechariah 2:6-13

Verse 6. “Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD. Verse 7. “Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!” Verse 8. For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you — for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye — Verse 9. I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.” Verse 10. “Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD. Verse 11. “On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. Verse 12. And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem. Verse 13. Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.”

PSALM

Psalm 145:8-14

The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

All You have made will give You thanks, O LORD, and Your saints will bless You.

They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom and speak of Your might,

to make known to men Your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful in all His words and kind in all His actions.

The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

SECOND READING

Romans 7:7-20

Verse 7. What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” Verse 8. But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead. Verse 9. Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. Verse 10. So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death. Verse 11. For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death. Verse 12. So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good. Verse 13. Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. Verse 14. We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. Verse 15. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do. Verse 16. And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good. Verse 17. In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. Verse 18. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Verse 19. For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do. Verse 20. And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.