Open Word

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Amos 3:9-4:5

Text not available in the Berean Standard Bible.

PSALM

Psalm 7

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite. O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers,

or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

then may my enemy pursue me and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust.

Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.

The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.

Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.

If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Job 24:1-8

Verse 1. “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days? Verse 2. Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. Verse 3. They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge. Verse 4. They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding. Verse 5. Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children. Verse 6. They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked. Verse 7. Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold. Verse 8. Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

PSALM

Psalm 25:11-20

For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.

Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.

His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.

The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.

My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.

Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

The troubles of my heart increase; free me from my distress.

Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.

Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.

Guard my soul and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in You.

SECOND READING

James 2:1-7

Verse 1. My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism. Verse 2. Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. Verse 3. If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,” Verse 4. have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Verse 5. Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him? Verse 6. But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court? Verse 7. Are they not the ones who blaspheme the noble name by which you have been called?