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Daily Lectionary

January 21, 2019

January 20, 2019 January 22, 2019

These daily readings from the EHV follow the one-year daily lectionary provided in Christian Worship: Hymnal, the Lutheran Service Book, and the Treasury of Daily Prayer. In this lectionary, two readings of 15-25 verses each are provided for each day. Under this plan, nearly all of the New Testament and approximately one-third of the Old Testament are read each year. These readings fit well within the daily offices of Matins, Vespers, or Compline as daily family devotions.

Joel 1:1-20

11The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
Warnings and Descriptions of the Locust Plague
2Hear this, you elders.
Listen, all of you who live in the land.
Has anything like this ever happened in your days
or in the days of your fathers?
3Tell it to your children,
and let your children tell it to their children,
and their children to the next generation.
4What the grasshoppers have left, the swarming locusts have eaten.
What the swarming locusts have left, the young locusts have eaten.
What the young locusts have left, the mature locusts have eaten.[]
5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep![]
Wail, all you wine drinkers,
because of the sweet wine[] that has been snatched from your mouth.
6A nation has come up into my land, powerful and without number.
It has teeth like a lion and fangs like a lioness.
7It has devastated my vines and shredded my fig trees.
It has completely stripped off their bark and thrown it aside,
so that their branches are bare and white.
8Grieve like a virgin dressed in sackcloth,
who grieves for the husband[] of her youth.
9Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off
from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,
those who minister in the presence of the Lord.
10The fields are devastated. The soil mourns.
The grain is devastated.
The new wine has run dry. The olive oil runs out.
11Hang your heads, you farmers.
Wail, you vine growers, for the wheat and for the barley,
because the grain harvest has died in the field.
12The vine has dried up, and the fig tree has withered.
The pomegranate, the date palm, and the apple tree—
all the trees in the countryside have dried up,
and joy has dried up for all the people.
13Put on sackcloth, you priests, and lament.
Wail, you who minister in front of the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
you who minister before my God,
because the grain offerings and drink offerings
are being held back from the house of your God.
14Set aside a day of fasting. Call a solemn convocation.
Summon the elders and everyone who lives in the land
to come to the house of the Lord your God.
Cry out to the Lord!
Announcement of the Day of the Lord
15How terrible that day will be!
Yes, the Day of the Lord is near.
It will come like destruction from the Almighty.[]
16Hasn't the food been cut off right before our eyes?
Happiness and celebration are cut off from the house of our God.
17The planted seed is dried up under the clods of earth.[]
The storehouses are in ruins.
The granaries have been broken down, because the grain has dried up.
18Listen to how the cattle bellow!
The herds of cattle are milling around in confusion, because they have no pasture.
Even the flocks of sheep are suffering punishment.
Closing Prayer
19To you, O Lord, I call,
because fire has consumed the grazing lands in the wilderness,[]
and flames have burned up all the trees in the countryside.
20Even the animals in the countryside pant for you.
The streams of water have dried up,
and fire has consumed the grazing lands in the wilderness.

Romans 10:1-21

Prayer for Israelites to Believe
101Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God on behalf of the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2Indeed, I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but it is not consistent with knowledge. 3Since they were ignorant of the righteousness from God and sought to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to the righteousness from God. 4For to everyone who believes, Christ is the end of the law, resulting in righteousness.
5Indeed, Moses writes this about the righteousness that comes by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”[] 6But the righteousness that comes by faith speaks like this: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”[] (that is, to bring Christ down) 7“or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’”[] (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart,”[] that is, the word of faith that we are proclaiming. 9Certainly, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For it is with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and it is with the mouth that a person confesses, resulting in salvation. 11For Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”[]
12So there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, because the same Lord is Lord of all, who gives generously to all who call on him. 13Yes, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”[]
Israel Rejected the Message God Sent
14So then, how can they call on one in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in one about whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without a preacher? 15And how can they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news of peace,[] who preach the gospel of good things!”[]
16But not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who believed our message?”[] 17So then, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes through the word of Christ.[]
18But I ask, did they not hear? Of course, they certainly did.
The sound of their voice went out to all the earth,
and their words to the farthest parts of the world.[]
19Yet I ask, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says:
I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation;
I will make you angry with a nation that does not understand.[]
20And Isaiah also boldly says:
I was found by those who were not looking for me;[]
I became well known to those who were not asking for me.
21But about Israel he says:
All day long I stretched out my hands
to a people who disobey and oppose me.[]