Friday in Season after Pentecost

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 32:1-14, 18

Verse 1. Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. Verse 2. Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants. Verse 3. For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God! Verse 4. He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He. Verse 5. His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation. Verse 6. Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you? Verse 7. Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you. Verse 8. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. Verse 9. But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance. Verse 10. He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye. Verse 11. As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions. Verse 12. The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him. Verse 13. He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag, Verse 14. with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine. Verse 18. You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

PSALM

Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17

A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.

Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.

May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands— yes, establish the work of our hands!

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Deuteronomy 9:25-10:5

Text not available in the Berean Standard Bible.

PSALM

Psalm 1

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

SECOND READING

Titus 2:7-8, 11-15

Verse 7. In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. In your teaching show integrity, dignity, Verse 8. and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us. Verse 11. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. Verse 12. It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age, Verse 13. as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. Verse 14. He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. Verse 15. Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.