Season after Pentecost

Tuesday in Season after Pentecost

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Jeremiah 49:7-11

Verse 7. Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed? Verse 8. Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him. Verse 9. If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted? Verse 10. But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more. Verse 11. Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”

PSALM

Psalm 142

Verse 1. A Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A prayer. I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift my voice to the LORD for mercy.
Verse 2. I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
Verse 3. Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
Verse 4. Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
Verse 5. I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
Verse 6. Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
Verse 7. Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Verse 1. “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. Verse 2. And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God: Verse 3. You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. Verse 4. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock — the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks. Verse 5. Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed. Verse 6. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. Verse 7. The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven. Verse 8. The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you. Verse 9. The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. Verse 10. Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you. Verse 11. The LORD will make you prosper abundantly — in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land — in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you. Verse 12. The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none. Verse 13. The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today. Verse 14. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.

PSALM

Psalm 92

Verse 1. A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,
Verse 2. to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night
Verse 3. with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
Verse 4. For You, O LORD, have made me glad by Your deeds; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.
Verse 5. How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!
Verse 6. A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
Verse 7. that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
Verse 8. But You, O LORD, are exalted forever!
Verse 9. For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
Verse 10. But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.
Verse 11. My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.
Verse 12. The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Verse 13. Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
Verse 14. In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
Verse 15. to proclaim, “The LORD is upright; He is my Rock, and in Him there is no unrighteousness.”

SECOND READING

Ephesians 4:17-5:2

Verse 17. So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. Verse 18. They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. Verse 19. Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more. Verse 20. But this is not the way you came to know Christ. Verse 21. Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him— in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus— Verse 22. to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; Verse 23. to be renewed in the spirit of your minds; Verse 24. and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Verse 25. Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another. Verse 26. “Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger, Verse 27. and do not give the devil a foothold. Verse 28. He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need. Verse 29. Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen. Verse 30. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Verse 31. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice. Verse 32. Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you. Verse 1. Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, Verse 2. and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.