Daily Readings: September 18, 2023

Monday after the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, 1882

Morning	Evening
Psalm 56 Psalm 57 Psalm 58	Psalm 64 Psalm 65
1 Kings 21:1-16 1 Cor. 1:1-19 Matt. 4:1-11

The Collect of the Day

Proper 19

The Sunday closest to September 14

O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Edward Bouverie Pusey

Grant, O God, that in all time of our testing we may know your presence and obey your will; that, following the example of your servant Edward Bouverie Pusey, we may with integrity and courage accomplish what you give us to do, and endure what you give us to bear; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalms

56

Miserere mei, DeusBCP p. 662

¹Have mercy on me, O God, for my enemies are hounding me; *all day long they assault and oppress me.

²They hound me all the day long; *truly there are many who fight against me, O Most High.

³Whenever I am afraid, *I will put my trust in you.

⁴In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust and will not be afraid, *for what can flesh do to me?

⁵All day long they damage my cause; *their only thought is to do me evil.

⁶They band together; they lie in wait; *they spy upon my footsteps; because they seek my life.

⁷Shall they escape despite their wickedness? *O God, in your anger, cast down the peoples.

⁸You have noted my lamentation; put my tears into your bottle; *are they not recorded in your book?

⁹Whenever I call upon you, my enemies will be put to flight; *this I know, for God is on my side.

¹⁰In God the Lord, whose word I praise, in God I trust and will not be afraid, *for what can mortals do to me?

¹¹I am bound by the vow I made to you, O God; *I will present to you thank-offerings;

¹²For you have rescued my soul from death and my feet from stumbling, *that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

57

Miserere mei, DeusBCP p. 663

¹Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful, for I have taken refuge in you; *in the shadow of your wings will I take refuge until this time of trouble has gone by.

²I will call upon the Most High God, *the God who maintains my cause.

³He will send from heaven and save me; he will confound those who trample upon me; *God will send forth his love and his faithfulness.

⁴I lie in the midst of lions that devour the people; *their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongue a sharp sword.

⁵They have laid a net for my feet, and I am bowed low; *they have dug a pit before me, but have fallen into it themselves.

⁶Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God, *and your glory over all the earth.

⁷My heart is firmly fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; *I will sing and make melody.

⁸Wake up, my spirit; awake, lute and harp; *I myself will waken the dawn.

⁹I will confess you among the peoples, O Lord; *I will sing praise to you among the nations.

¹⁰For your loving-kindness is greater than the heavens, *and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

¹¹Exalt yourself above the heavens, O God, *and your glory over all the earth.

58

Si vere utiqueBCP p. 664

¹Do you indeed decree righteousness, you rulers? *do you judge the peoples with equity?

²No; you devise evil in your hearts, *and your hands deal out violence in the land.

³The wicked are perverse from the womb; *liars go astray from their birth.

⁴They are as venomous as a serpent, *they are like the deaf adder which stops its ears,

⁵Which does not heed the voice of the charmer, *no matter how skillful his charming.

⁶O God, break their teeth in their mouths; *pull the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

⁷Let them vanish like water that runs off; *let them wither like trodden grass.

⁸Let them be like the snail that melts away, *like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.

⁹Before they bear fruit, let them be cut down like a brier; *like thorns and thistles let them be swept away.

¹⁰The righteous will be glad when they see the vengeance; *they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹And they will say, “Surely, there is a reward for the righteous; *surely, there is a God who rules in the earth.”

Daily Office Readings

¹Later the following events took place: Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of King Ahab of Samaria. ²And Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, so that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house; I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.” ³But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you my ancestral inheritance.” ⁴Ahab went home resentful and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him; for he had said, “I will not give you my ancestral inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat. ⁵His wife Jezebel came to him and said, “Why are you so depressed that you will not eat?” ⁶He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard for it’; but he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’” ⁷His wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” ⁸So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal; she sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who lived with Naboth in his city. ⁹She wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth at the head of the assembly; ¹⁰seat two scoundrels opposite him, and have them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out, and stone him to death.” ¹¹The men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. Just as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, ¹²they proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the assembly. ¹³The two scoundrels came in and sat opposite him; and the scoundrels brought a charge against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city, and stoned him to death. ¹⁴Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.” ¹⁵As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Go, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.” ¹⁶As soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab set out to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.