Tuesday in Season after Pentecost

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 5:22-6:3

Verse 22. The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. Verse 23. And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me, Verse 24. and you said, “Behold, the LORD our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him. Verse 25. But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer. Verse 26. For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived? Verse 27. Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.” Verse 28. And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. Verse 29. If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever. Verse 30. Go and tell them: ‘Return to your tents.’ Verse 31. But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.” Verse 32. So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left. Verse 33. You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess. Verse 1. These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess, Verse 2. so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged. Verse 3. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

PSALM

Psalm 119:49-56

Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.

This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.

The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.

I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.

Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.

Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.

In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.

This is my practice, for I obey Your precepts.

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Isaiah 27:1-6

Verse 1. In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent — Leviathan the coiling serpent— and He will slay the dragon of the sea. Verse 2. In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard. Verse 3. I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it; Verse 4. I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground. Verse 5. Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me— yes, let them make peace with Me.” Verse 6. In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

PSALM

Psalm 144

Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You —

to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.

Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.

Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.

SECOND READING

2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Verse 17. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! Verse 18. All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: Verse 19. that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. Verse 20. Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. Verse 21. God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.