Season after Pentecost

Wednesday in Season after Pentecost

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 6:10-25

Verse 10. And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you— a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build, Verse 11. with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant— and when you eat and are satisfied, Verse 12. be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Verse 13. Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name. Verse 14. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you. Verse 15. For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth. Verse 16. Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah. Verse 17. You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you. Verse 18. Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers, Verse 19. driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said. Verse 20. In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?” Verse 21. then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Verse 22. Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household. Verse 23. But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers. Verse 24. And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day. Verse 25. And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”

PSALM

Psalm 119:49-56

Verse 49. Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.
Verse 50. This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
Verse 51. The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
Verse 52. I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.
Verse 53. Rage has taken hold of me because of the wicked who reject Your law.
Verse 54. Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
Verse 55. In the night, O LORD, I remember Your name, that I may keep Your law.
Verse 56. This is my practice, for I obey Your precepts.

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Song of Solomon 8:5-14

Verse 5. Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth. Verse 6. Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all. Verse 7. Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned. Verse 8. We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for? Verse 9. If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar. Verse 10. I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace. Verse 11. Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver. Verse 12. But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit. Verse 13. You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it! Verse 14. Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

PSALM

Psalm 144

Verse 1. Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
Verse 2. 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.
Verse 3. O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
Verse 4. Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Verse 5. Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Verse 6. Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.
Verse 7. Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
Verse 8. whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
Verse 9. I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You —
Verse 10. to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
Verse 11. Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
Verse 12. Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Verse 13. Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.
Verse 14. 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.
Verse 15. Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.

SECOND READING

John 11:45-57

Verse 45. Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him. Verse 46. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. Verse 47. Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. Verse 48. If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” Verse 49. But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! Verse 50. You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” Verse 51. Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation, Verse 52. and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one. Verse 53. So from that day on they plotted to kill Him. Verse 54. As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples. Verse 55. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover. Verse 56. They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?” Verse 57. But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.