Reading 1, Second Corinthians 4:7-15 7 But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God's and not our own.8 We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair;9 we are...

Reading 1, Jeremiah 3:14-17 14 "Come back, disloyal children, Yahweh declares, for I alone am your Master, and I will take you, one from a town, two from a family, and bring you to Zion.15 I shall give you shepherds after my own heart, who will pasture you wisely and...

Reading 1, Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13 1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,2 'Go and shout this in Jerusalem's ears: 'Yahweh says this: "I remember your faithful love, the affection of your bridal days, when you followed me through the desert, through a land...

Reading 1, Second Corinthians 5:14-17 14 For the love of Christ overwhelms us when we consider that if one man died for all, then all have died;15 his purpose in dying for all humanity was that those who live should live not any more for themselves, but for him who...

Reading 1, Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 14 With shepherd's crook lead your people to pasture, the flock that is your heritage, living confined in a forest with meadow land all round. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old!15 As in the days when you came out...

Reading 1, Micah 6:1-4, 6-8 1 Now listen to what Yahweh says: 'Stand up, state your case to the mountains and let the hills hear what you have to say!'2 Listen, mountains, to the case as Yahweh puts it, give ear, you foundations of the earth, for Yahweh has a case...

Reading 1, Wisdom 12:13, 16-19 13 For there is no god, other than you, who cares for every one, to whom you have to prove that your sentences have been just.16 For your strength is the basis of your saving justice, and your sovereignty over all makes you lenient to...

Reading 1, Micah 2:1-5 1 Disaster for those who plot evil, who lie in bed planning mischief! No sooner is it dawn than they do it, since they have the power to do so.2 Seizing the fields that they covet, they take over houses as well, owner and house they seize alike,...

Reading 1, Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 1 About then, Hezekiah fell ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, 'Yahweh says this, "Put your affairs in order, for you are going to die, you will not live." '2 Hezekiah turned his...

Reading 1, Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 7 The path of the Upright One is honesty; you smooth the honest way of the upright.8 Following the path of your judgements, Yahweh, we set our hopes in you, your name, your memory are all our soul desires.9 At night my soul longs...