Monday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. “Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity, 2Verse 2. I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land. 3Verse 3. They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink. 4Verse 4. Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads. 5Verse 5. For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples. 6Verse 6. You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland. 7Verse 7. Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads. 8Verse 8. I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans — to a distant nation.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

1Verse 1. At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the LORD; my horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation. 2Verse 2. There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God. 3Verse 3. Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed. 4Verse 4. The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength. 5Verse 5. The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away. 6Verse 6. The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. 7Verse 7. The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts. 8Verse 8. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world. 9Verse 9. He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail. 10Verse 10. Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”