Daily Readings: October 14, 2023

Saturday after the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906

Morning	Evening
Psalm 137:1-6(7-9) Psalm 144	Psalm 104
Jeremiah 35:1-19 1 Cor. 12:27-13:3 Matt. 9:35-10:4

The Collect of the Day

Proper 22

The Sunday closest to October 5

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Samuel Isaac Joseph Scherechewsky

O God, who in your providence called Joseph Schereschewsky to the ministry of this church and gave him the gifts and the perseverance to translate the Holy Scriptures: Inspire us, by his example and prayers, to commit our talents to your service, confident that you uphold those whom you call; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

137

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¹By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, *when we remembered you, O Zion.

²As for our harps, we hung them up *on the trees in the midst of that land.

³For those who led us away captive asked us for a song, and our oppressors called for mirth: *“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

⁴How shall we sing the Lord’s song *upon an alien soil?

⁵If I forget you, O Jerusalem, *let my right hand forget its skill.

⁶Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, *if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy.

⁷Remember the day of Jerusalem, O Lord, against the people of Edom, *who said, “Down with it! down with it! even to the ground!”

⁸O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, *happy the one who pays you back for what you have done to us!

⁹Happy shall he be who takes your little ones, *and dashes them against the rock!

144

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¹Blessed be the Lord my rock! *who trains my hands to fight and my fingers to battle;

²My help and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, *my shield in whom I trust, who subdues the peoples under me.

³O Lord, what are we that you should care for us? *mere mortals that you should think of us?

⁴We are like a puff of wind; *our days are like a passing shadow.

⁵Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down; *touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶Hurl the lightning and scatter them; *shoot out your arrows and rout them.

⁷Stretch out your hand from on high; *rescue me and deliver me from the great waters, from the hand of foreign peoples,

⁸Whose mouths speak deceitfully *and whose right hand is raised in falsehood.

⁹O God, I will sing to you a new song; *I will play to you on a ten-stringed lyre.

¹⁰You give victory to kings *and have rescued David your servant.

¹¹Rescue me from the hurtful sword *and deliver me from the hand of foreign peoples,

¹²Whose mouths speak deceitfully *and whose right hand is raised in falsehood.

¹³May our sons be like plants well nurtured from their youth, *and our daughters like sculptured corners of a palace.

¹⁴May our barns be filled to overflowing with all manner of crops; *may the flocks in our pastures increase by thousands and tens of thousands; may our cattle be fat and sleek.

¹⁵May there be no breaching of the walls, no going into exile, *no wailing in the public squares.

¹⁶Happy are the people of whom this is so! *happy are the people whose God is the Lord!

Daily Office Readings

¹The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah: ²Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink. ³So I took Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites. ⁴I brought them to the house of the Lord into the chamber of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold. ⁵Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Have some wine.” ⁶But they answered, “We will drink no wine, for our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘You shall never drink wine, neither you nor your children; ⁷nor shall you ever build a house, or sow seed; nor shall you plant a vineyard, or even own one; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you reside.’ ⁸We have obeyed the charge of our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters, ⁹and not to build houses to live in. We have no vineyard or field or seed; ¹⁰but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed and done all that our ancestor Jonadab commanded us. ¹¹But when King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Arameans.’ That is why we are living in Jerusalem.” ¹²Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ¹³Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Can you not learn a lesson and obey my words? says the Lord. ¹⁴The command has been carried out that Jonadab son of Rechab gave to his descendants to drink no wine; and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their ancestor’s command. But I myself have spoken to you persistently, and you have not obeyed me. ¹⁵I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now everyone of you from your evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall live in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors.’ But you did not incline your ear or obey me. ¹⁶The descendants of Jonadab son of Rechab have carried out the command that their ancestor gave them, but this people has not obeyed me. ¹⁷Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem every disaster that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered. ¹⁸But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of your ancestor Jonadab, and kept all his precepts, and done all that he commanded you, ¹⁹therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab son of Rechab shall not lack a descendant to stand before me for all time.