Season after Pentecost
Monday in Season after Pentecost
Monday, November 27, 2028
Semicontinuous (Track 1)
FIRST READING
Jeremiah 30:1-17
Verse 1. This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: Verse 2. “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. Verse 3. For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’” Verse 4. These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah. Verse 5. Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard — a cry of terror, not of peace. Verse 6. Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale? Verse 7. How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it. Verse 8. On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them. Verse 9. Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. Verse 10. As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid. Verse 11. For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.” Verse 12. For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous. Verse 13. There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you. Verse 14. All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins. Verse 15. Why do you cry out over your wound? Your pain has no cure! Because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins I have done these things to you. Verse 16. Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries— every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided. Verse 17. But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
PSALM
Psalm 117
Complementary (Track 2)
FIRST READING
Jeremiah 46:18-28
Verse 18. As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, there will come one who is like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea. Verse 19. Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited. Verse 20. Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her. Verse 21. Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them — the time of their punishment. Verse 22. Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees. Verse 23. They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted. Verse 24. The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.” Verse 25. The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am about to punish Amon god of Thebes, along with Pharaoh, Egypt with her gods and kings, and those who trust in Pharaoh. Verse 26. I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives— of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the LORD. Verse 27. But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid. Verse 28. And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
PSALM
Psalm 24
SECOND READING
Revelation 21:5-27
Verse 5. And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.” Verse 6. And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life. Verse 7. The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son. Verse 8. But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.” Verse 9. Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” Verse 10. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, Verse 11. shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal. Verse 12. The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates. Verse 13. There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west. Verse 14. The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. Verse 15. The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls. Verse 16. The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal — 12,000 stadia in length and width and height. Verse 17. And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using. Verse 18. The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass. Verse 19. The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, Verse 20. the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. Verse 21. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass. Verse 22. But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. Verse 23. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp. Verse 24. By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory. Verse 25. Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there. Verse 26. And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations. Verse 27. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.