Daily Readings: December 2, 2023

Saturday after the Last Sunday after Pentecost

Channing Moore Williams, Missionary Bishop in China and Japan, 1910

Morning	Evening
Psalm 137:1-6(7-9) Psalm 144	Psalm 104
Zech. 14:12-21 Philippians 2:1-11 Luke 19:41-48

The Collect of the Day

Proper 29

The Sunday closest to November 23

Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Channing Moore Williams

O God, who in your providence called Channing Moore Williams to the ministry of this church and gave him the gifts and the perseverance to preach the Gospel in new lands: 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

¹²This shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet; their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths. ¹³On that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of a neighbor, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other; ¹⁴even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected—gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. ¹⁵And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever animals may be in those camps. ¹⁶Then all who survive of the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the festival of booths. ¹⁷If any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain upon them. ¹⁸And if the family of Egypt do not go up and present themselves, then on them shall come the plague that the Lord inflicts on the nations that do not go up to keep the festival of booths. ¹⁹Such shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to keep the festival of booths. ²⁰On that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to the Lord.” And the cooking pots in the house of the Lord shall be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar; ²¹and every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and use them to boil the flesh of the sacrifice. And there shall no longer be traders in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.