Season after Pentecost

Tuesday in Season after Pentecost

Tuesday, June 1, 2027

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

1 Samuel 2:18-21

Verse 18. Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD — a boy wearing a linen ephod. Verse 19. Each year his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice. Verse 20. And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD. ” Then they would go home. Verse 21. So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.

PSALM

Psalm 99

Verse 1. The LORD reigns; let the nations tremble! He is enthroned above the cherubim; let the earth quake!
Verse 2. Great is the LORD in Zion; He is exalted above all the peoples.
Verse 3. Let them praise Your great and awesome name — He is holy!
Verse 4. The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Verse 5. Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy!
Verse 6. Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.
Verse 7. He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
Verse 8. O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.
Verse 9. Exalt the LORD our God and worship at His holy mountain, for the LORD our God is holy.

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Exodus 16:27-36

Verse 27. Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything. Verse 28. Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions? Verse 29. Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.” Verse 30. So the people rested on the seventh day. Verse 31. Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. Verse 32. Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’” Verse 33. So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved for the generations to come.” Verse 34. And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses. Verse 35. The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan. Verse 36. (Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

PSALM

Psalm 78:1-4, 52-72

Verse 1. A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.
Verse 2. I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
Verse 3. that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Verse 4. We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might and the wonders He has performed.
Verse 52. He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
Verse 53. He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
Verse 54. He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
Verse 55. He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Verse 56. But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
Verse 57. They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
Verse 58. They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
Verse 59. On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.
Verse 60. He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
Verse 61. He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
Verse 62. He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
Verse 63. Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
Verse 64. His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
Verse 65. Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
Verse 66. He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.
Verse 67. He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
Verse 68. But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
Verse 69. He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.
Verse 70. He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
Verse 71. from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
Verse 72. So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.

SECOND READING

Acts 15:1-5, 22-35

Verse 1. Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” Verse 2. And after engaging these men in sharp debate, Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. Verse 3. Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers. Verse 4. On their arrival in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and apostles and elders, to whom they reported all that God had done through them. Verse 5. But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.” Verse 22. Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to select men from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, two leaders among the brothers, Verse 23. and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings. Verse 24. It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said. Verse 25. So we all agreed to choose men to send to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, Verse 26. men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 27. Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to tell you in person the same things we are writing. Verse 28. It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond these essential requirements: Verse 29. You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell. Verse 30. So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they assembled the congregation and delivered the letter. Verse 31. When the people read it, they rejoiced at its encouraging message. Verse 32. Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the brothers. Verse 33. After spending some time there, they were sent off by the brothers in peace to return to those who had sent them. Verse 35. But Paul and Barnabas remained at Antioch, along with many others, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord.