Saturday in Season after Pentecost

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Exodus 4:1-9

Verse 1. Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’” Verse 2. And the LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. Verse 3. “Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Verse 4. “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand. Verse 5. “This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers — the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob — has appeared to you.” Verse 6. Furthermore, the LORD said to Moses, “Put your hand inside your cloak. ” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, white as snow. Verse 7. “Put your hand back inside your cloak,” said the LORD. So Moses put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his skin. Verse 8. And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second. Verse 9. But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”

PSALM

Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b

Give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.

Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.

Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,

whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.

He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

Hallelujah!

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Jeremiah 15:10-14

Verse 10. Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me. Verse 11. The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress. Verse 12. Can anyone smash iron — iron from the north — or bronze? Verse 13. Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders. Verse 14. Then I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”

PSALM

Psalm 26:1-8

Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.

For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.

O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

SECOND READING

Matthew 8:14-17

Verse 14. When Jesus arrived at Peter’s house, He saw Peter’s mother-in-law sick in bed with a fever. Verse 15. So He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve Him. Verse 16. When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to Jesus, and He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. Verse 17. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”