Friday in Season after Pentecost

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 32:1-10

Verse 1. Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. Verse 2. Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants. Verse 3. For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God! Verse 4. He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He. Verse 5. His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation. Verse 6. Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you? Verse 7. Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you. Verse 8. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. Verse 9. But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance. Verse 10. He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

PSALM

Psalm 119:105-112

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

I am severely afflicted, O LORD; revive me through Your word.

Accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me Your judgments.

I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.

The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes, even to the very end.

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Isaiah 48:6-11

Verse 6. You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you. Verse 7. They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ‘I already knew them!’ Verse 8. You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth. Verse 9. For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off. Verse 10. See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. Verse 11. For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.

PSALM

Psalm 65:9-13

You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.

You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.

The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.

The pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are decked with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.

SECOND READING

Romans 15:14-21

Verse 14. I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another. Verse 15. However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me Verse 16. to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. Verse 17. Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God. Verse 18. I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, Verse 19. by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. Verse 20. In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. Verse 21. Rather, as it is written: “Those who were not told about Him will see, and those who have not heard will understand.”