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    Holy Saturday

    O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

    Psalms

    88

    Domine, DeusBCP p. 712

    1O Lord, my God, my Savior, *by day and night I cry to you.

    2Let my prayer enter into your presence; *incline your ear to my lamentation.

    3For I am full of trouble; *my life is at the brink of the grave.

    4I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; *I have become like one who has no strength;

    5Lost among the dead, *like the slain who lie in the grave,

    6Whom you remember no more, *for they are cut off from your hand.

    7You have laid me in the depths of the Pit, *in dark places, and in the abyss.

    8Your anger weighs upon me heavily, *and all your great waves overwhelm me.

    9You have put my friends far from me; you have made me to be abhorred by them; *I am in prison and cannot get free.

    10My sight has failed me because of trouble; *Lord, I have called upon you daily; I have stretched out my hands to you.

    11Do you work wonders for the dead? *will those who have died stand up and give you thanks?

    12Will your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? *your faithfulness in the land of destruction?

    13Will your wonders be known in the dark? *or your righteousness in the country where all is forgotten?

    14But as for me, O Lord, I cry to you for help; *in the morning my prayer comes before you.

    15Lord, why have you rejected me? *why have you hidden your face from me?

    16Ever since my youth, I have been wretched and at the point of death; *I have borne your terrors with a troubled mind.

    17Your blazing anger has swept over me; *your terrors have destroyed me;

    18They surround me all day long like a flood; *they encompass me on every side.

    19My friend and my neighbor you have put away from me, *and darkness is my only companion.

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    Lam. 3:37-58

    37 Who can command and have it done, if the Lord has not ordained it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come? 39 Why should any who draw breath complain about the punishment of their sins? 40 Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord. 41 Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands to God in heaven. 42 We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven. 43 You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; 44 you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through. 45 You have made us filth and rubbish among the peoples. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us; 47 panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction. 48 My eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of my people. 49 My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite, 50 until the Lord from heaven looks down and sees. 51 My eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the young women in my city. 52 Those who were my enemies without cause have hunted me like a bird; 53 they flung me alive into a pit and hurled stones on me; 54 water closed over my head; I said, “I am lost.” 55 I called on your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit; 56 you heard my plea, “Do not close your ear to my cry for help, but give me relief!” 57 You came near when I called on you; you said, “Do not fear!” 58 You have taken up my cause, O Lord, you have redeemed my life.

    Heb. 4:1-16

    1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest is still open, let us take care that none of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For indeed the good news came to us just as to them; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “As in my anger I swore, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” though his works were finished at the foundation of the world. 4 For in one place it speaks about the seventh day as follows, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” 5 And again in this place it says, “They shall not enter my rest.” 6 Since therefore it remains open for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again he sets a certain day—“today” —saying through David much later, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later about another day. 9 So then, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God; 10 for those who enter God’s rest also cease from their labors as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall through such disobedience as theirs. 12 Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account. 14 Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.