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Daily Readings For April 3

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Daily Readings for Monday, April 3, 2023


Morning Psalm 119:73-80

73  Your hands have made and fashioned me;
          give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
74  Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,
          because I have hoped in your word.
75  I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right,
          and that in faithfulness you have humbled me.
76  Let your steadfast love become my comfort
          according to your promise to your servant.
77  Let your mercy come to me, that I may live;
          for your law is my delight.
78  Let the arrogant be put to shame,
          because they have subverted me with guile;
          as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.
79  Let those who fear you turn to me,
          so that they may know your decrees.
80  May my heart be blameless in your statutes,
          so that I may not be put to shame.

Morning Psalm 145

1   I will extol you, my God and King,
          and bless your name forever and ever.
2   Every day I will bless you,
          and praise your name forever and ever.
3   Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
          his greatness is unsearchable.


4   One generation shall laud your works to another,
          and shall declare your mighty acts.
5   On the glorious splendor of your majesty,
          and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.
6   The might of your awesome deeds shall be proclaimed,
          and I will declare your greatness.
7   They shall celebrate the fame of your abundant goodness,
          and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.


8   The Lord is gracious and merciful,
          slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9   The Lord is good to all,
          and his compassion is over all that he has made.


10  All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,
          and all your faithful shall bless you.
11  They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom,
          and tell of your power,
12  to make known to all people your mighty deeds,
          and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
13  Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
          and your dominion endures throughout all generations.


     The Lord is faithful in all his words,
          and gracious in all his deeds.
14  The Lord upholds all who are falling,
          and raises up all who are bowed down.
15  The eyes of all look to you,
          and you give them their food in due season.
16  You open your hand,
          satisfying the desire of every living thing.
17  The Lord is just in all his ways,
          and kind in all his doings.
18  The Lord is near to all who call on him,
          to all who call on him in truth.
19  He fulfills the desire of all who fear him;
          he also hears their cry, and saves them.
20  The Lord watches over all who love him,
          but all the wicked he will destroy.


21  My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,
          and all flesh will bless his holy name forever and ever.

First Reading Jeremiah 11:18-20; 12:1-16 (17)

11:18It was the LORD who made it known to me, and I knew;
          then you showed me their evil deeds.
19  But I was like a gentle lamb
          led to the slaughter.
     And I did not know it was against me
          that they devised schemes, saying,
     “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
          let us cut him off from the land of the living,
          so that his name will no longer be remembered!”
20  But you, O LORD of hosts, who judge righteously,
          who try the heart and the mind,
     let me see your retribution upon them,
          for to you I have committed my cause.

12:1 You will be in the right, O LORD,
          when I lay charges against you;
          but let me put my case to you.
     Why does the way of the guilty prosper?
          Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
2   You plant them, and they take root;
          they grow and bring forth fruit;
     you are near in their mouths
          yet far from their hearts.
3   But you, O LORD, know me;
          You see me and test me — my heart is with you.
     Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
          and set them apart for the day of slaughter.
4   How long will the land mourn,
          and the grass of every field wither?
     For the wickedness of those who live in it
          the animals and the birds are swept away,
          and because people said, “He is blind to our ways.”

5   If you have raced with foot-runners and they have wearied you,
          how will you compete with horses?
     And if in a safe land you fall down,
          how will you fare in the thickets of the Jordan?
6   For even your kinsfolk and your own family,
          even they have dealt treacherously with you;
          they are in full cry after you;
     do not believe them,
          though they speak friendly words to you.

7   I have forsaken my house,
          I have abandoned my heritage;
     I have given the beloved of my heart
          into the hands of her enemies.
8   My heritage has become to me
          like a lion in the forest;
     she has lifted up her voice against me —
          therefore I hate her.
9   Is the hyena greedy for my heritage at my command?
          Are the birds of prey all around her?
     Go, assemble all the wild animals;
          bring them to devour her.
10  Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard,
          they have trampled down my portion,
     they have made my pleasant portion
          a desolate wilderness.
11  They have made it a desolation;
          desolate, it mourns to me.
     The whole land is made desolate,
          but no one lays it to heart.
12  Upon all the bare heights in the desert
          spoilers have come;
     for the sword of the LORD devours
          from one end of the land to the other;
          no one shall be safe.
13  They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns,
          they have tired themselves out but profit nothing.
     They shall be ashamed of their harvests
          because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

14Thus says the LORD concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: I am about to pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. 15And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again to their heritage and to their land, everyone of them. 16And then, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, “As the LORD lives,” as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people. 17But if any nation will not listen, then I will completely uproot it and destroy it, says the LORD.

Second Reading Philippians 3:1-14

1Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord.

To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, and for you it is a safeguard.
        2Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh! 3For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh — 4even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh.
        If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: 5circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

7Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. 8More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith. 10I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

12Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

Gospel Reading John 12:9-19

9When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well, 11since it was on account of him that many of the Jews were deserting and were believing in Jesus.

12The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting,
     “Hosanna!
     Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord —
          the King of Israel!”
14Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it; as it is written:
15  “Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion.
     Look, your king is coming,
          sitting on a donkey’s colt!”
16His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him. 17So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify. 18It was also because they heard that he had performed this sign that the crowd went to meet him. 19The Pharisees then said to one another, “You see, you can do nothing. Look, the world has gone after him!”

Evening Psalm 121

1  I lift up my eyes to the hills —
          from where will my help come?
2   My help comes from the LORD,
          who made heaven and earth.


3   He will not let your foot be moved;
          he who keeps you will not slumber.
4   He who keeps Israel
          will neither slumber nor sleep.


5   The LORD is your keeper;
          the LORD is your shade at your right hand.
6   The sun shall not strike you by day,
          nor the moon by night.


7   The LORD will keep you from all evil;
          he will keep your life.
8   The LORD will keep
          your going out and your coming in
          from this time on and for evermore.

Evening Psalm 6

1   O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger,
          or discipline me in your wrath.
2   Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing;
          O LORD, heal me, for my bones are shaking with terror.
3   My soul also is struck with terror,
          while you, O LORD — how long?


4   Turn, O LORD, save my life;
          deliver me for the sake of your steadfast love.
5   For in death there is no remembrance of you;
          in Sheol who can give you praise?


6   I am weary with my moaning;
          every night I flood my bed with tears;
          I drench my couch with my weeping.
7   My eyes waste away because of grief;
          they grow weak because of all my foes.


8   Depart from me, all you workers of evil,
          for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
9   The LORD has heard my supplication;
          the LORD accepts my prayer.
10  All my enemies shall be ashamed and struck with terror;
          they shall turn back, and in a moment be put to shame.