Friday in Epiphany — Open Word

FIRST READING

Jeremiah 13:20-27

Verse 20. Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride? Verse 21. What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor? Verse 22. And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed. Verse 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good — you who are accustomed to doing evil. Verse 24. “I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind. Verse 25. This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood. Verse 26. So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen. Verse 27. Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields — I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

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

1 Peter 1:17-2:1

Text not available in the Berean Standard Bible.