Semicontinuous (Track 1)
FIRST READING
Job 28:12-29:10
Text not available in the Berean Standard Bible.
1Verse 1. For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
2Verse 2. I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.
3Verse 3. My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
4Verse 4. “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
5Verse 5. You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath.
6Verse 6. Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
7Verse 7. And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
8Verse 8. Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.
9Verse 9. I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
10Verse 10. Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
11Verse 11. You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor.
12Verse 12. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
13Verse 13. Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
Complementary (Track 2)
FIRST READING
Obadiah 1:10-16
10Verse 10. Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
11Verse 11. On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
12Verse 12. But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
13Verse 13. You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
14Verse 14. Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.
15Verse 15. For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
16Verse 16. For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.
1Verse 1. Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
2Verse 2. Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
3Verse 3. For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
4Verse 4. I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
5Verse 5. I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
6Verse 6. I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
7Verse 7. to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.
8Verse 8. O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
9Verse 9. Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
10Verse 10. in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.
11Verse 11. But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
12Verse 12. My feet stand on level ground; in the congregations I will bless the LORD.
SECOND READING
Revelation 8:1-5
1Verse 1. When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
2Verse 2. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.
3Verse 3. Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.
4Verse 4. And the smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, rose up before God from the hand of the angel.
5Verse 5. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.