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Saturday after the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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    The Collect of the Day

    Proper 18

    The Sunday closest to September 7

    Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

    Psalms

    55

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    1Hear my prayer, O God; *do not hide yourself from my petition.

    2Listen to me and answer me; *I have no peace, because of my cares.

    3I am shaken by the noise of the enemy *and by the pressure of the wicked;

    4For they have cast an evil spell upon me *and are set against me in fury.

    5My heart quakes within me, *and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

    6Fear and trembling have come over me, *and horror overwhelms me.

    7And I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! *I would fly away and be at rest.

    8I would flee to a far-off place *and make my lodging in the wilderness.

    9I would hasten to escape *from the stormy wind and tempest.”

    10Swallow them up, O Lord; confound their speech; *for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

    11Day and night the watchmen make their rounds upon her walls, *but trouble and misery are in the midst of her.

    12 There is corruption at her heart; *her streets are never free of oppression and deceit.

    13For had it been an adversary who taunted me, then I could have borne it; *or had it been an enemy who vaunted himself against me, then I could have hidden from him.

    14But it was you, a man after my own heart, *my companion, my own familiar friend.

    15We took sweet counsel together, *and walked with the throng in the house of God.

    16Let death come upon them suddenly; let them go down alive to the grave; *for wickedness is in their dwellings, in their very midst.

    17But I will call upon God, *and the Lord will deliver me.

    18In the evening, in the morning, and at noonday, I will complain and lament, *and he will hear my voice.

    19He will bring me safely back from the battle waged against me; *for there are many who fight me.

    20God, who is enthroned of old, will hear me and bring them down; *they never change; they do not fear God.

    21My companion stretched forth his hand against his comrade; *he has broken his covenant.

    22His speech is softer than butter, *but war is in his heart.

    23His words are smoother than oil, *but they are drawn swords.

    24Cast your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you; *he will never let the righteous stumble.

    25For you will bring the bloodthirsty and deceitful *down to the pit of destruction, O God.

    26They shall not live out half their days, *but I will put my trust in you.

    Daily Office Readings

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    Acts 15:22-35

    22 Then the apostles and the elders, with the consent of the whole church, decided to choose men from among their members and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leaders among the brothers, 23 with the following letter: “The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the believers of Gentile origin in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. 24 Since we have heard that certain persons who have gone out from us, though with no instructions from us, have said things to disturb you and have unsettled your minds, 25 we have decided unanimously to choose representatives and send them to you, along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 26 who have risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. 28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.” 30 So they were sent off and went down to Antioch. When they gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter. 31 When its members read it, they rejoiced at the exhortation. 32 Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers. 33 After they had been there for some time, they were sent off in peace by the believers to those who had sent them. 35 But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, and there, with many others, they taught and proclaimed the word of the Lord.

    John 11:45-54

    45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what he had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.” 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! 50 You do not understand that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.” 51 He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God. 53 So from that day on they planned to put him to death. 54 Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness; and he remained there with the disciples.

    Job 38:1-17

    1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: 2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. 4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. 5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? 6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone 7 when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy? 8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?— 9 when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, 10 and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, 11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped’? 12 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, 13 so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it? 14 It is changed like clay under the seal, and it is dyed like a garment. 15 Light is withheld from the wicked, and their uplifted arm is broken. 16 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?