Open Word

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Exodus 2:11-15a

Verse 11. One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Verse 12. After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand. Verse 13. The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?” Verse 14. But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? ” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.” Verse 15. When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses.

PSALM

Psalm 8

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.

From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place —

what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,

the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 32:18-20, 28-39

Verse 18. You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth. Verse 19. When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters. Verse 20. He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness. Verse 28. Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them. Verse 29. If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate. Verse 30. How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up? Verse 31. For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede. Verse 32. But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. Verse 33. Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras. Verse 34. “Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults? Verse 35. Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.” Verse 36. For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free. Verse 37. He will say: “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge, Verse 38. which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter! Verse 39. See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

PSALM

Psalm 18:1-3, 20-32

For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.

The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.

And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.

So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.

To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.

For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.

For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.

As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.

SECOND READING

Romans 11:33-36

Verse 33. O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways! Verse 34. “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?” Verse 35. “Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?” Verse 36. For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.