Tuesday in Season after Pentecost

1Verse 1. This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth: 2Verse 2. O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy! 3Verse 3. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth. 4Verse 4. His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden. 5Verse 5. Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps. 6Verse 6. He stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting. 7Verse 7. I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling. 8Verse 8. Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation? 9Verse 9. You brandished Your bow; You called for many arrows. You split the earth with rivers. 10Verse 10. The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high. 11Verse 11. Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear. 12Verse 12. You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath. 13Verse 13. You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. 14Verse 14. With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak. 15Verse 15. You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters. 16Verse 16. I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

1Verse 1. In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. 2Verse 2. Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD 3Verse 3. by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?” 4Verse 4. Then the word of the LORD of Hosts came to me, saying, 5Verse 5. “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted? 6Verse 6. And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves? 7Verse 7. Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?’” 8Verse 8. Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, 9Verse 9. “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another. 10Verse 10. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’ 11Verse 11. But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. 12Verse 12. They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts. 13Verse 13. And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts. 14Verse 14. But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”