Daily Lectionary

November 15, 2023

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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.

Jeremiah 30:1-24

The Lord Will Restore Israel

30¹This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord. ²The Lord, the God of Israel, says,

Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book. ³Look, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity. I will restore them to the land I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it, says the Lord.

⁴These are words the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah. ⁵This is what the Lord says.

“We have heard cries of fear,

of terror, and not of peace.”

⁶Ask and see.

Can a man give birth to a child?

Why then do I see every strong man

with his hands on his belly like a woman in labor?

Why has every face turned pale?

⁷That day is so terrible that there is none like it!

It will be a time of trouble for Jacob,

but he will be saved out of it.

⁸In that day, declares the Lord of Armies,

I will break the yoke off your neck.

I will tear away your bonds.

Strangers will no longer enslave Israel,

⁹but they will serve the Lord their God

and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

¹⁰Therefore do not be afraid, my servant Jacob, declares the Lord.

Do not be terrified, Israel,

because I will certainly save you from a faraway place.

I will save your descendants from the land where they are captive.

Jacob will return.

He will enjoy quiet and be at ease,

and no one will make him afraid.

¹¹I am with you to save you, declares the Lord.

I will completely destroy all the nations

among which I have scattered you,

but I will not completely destroy you.

I will discipline you with justice,^[]

yet I will not regard you as entirely innocent.

¹²So this is what the Lord says.

Your wound is incurable.

Your injury is severe.

¹³There is no one to plead your cause,

no one to bind your wounds.

There are no healing medicines.

¹⁴All who loved you have forgotten you.

They do not ask about you.

I have wounded you as an enemy would.

I have punished you as the cruel would,

because your guilt is so great,

because your sins are so many.

¹⁵Why are you crying over your injury,

over your incurable wound?

It is because of your great guilt,

because of your many sins,

that I have done these things to you.

¹⁶Yet all who devour you will be devoured.

All your enemies, every one of them, will go into captivity.

Those who plunder you will be plundered.

All who prey on you will become prey.

¹⁷For I will restore your health,

and I will heal your wounds, declares the Lord,

because they have called you an outcast,

saying, “It is Zion—for whom no one cares.”

¹⁸This is what the Lord says.

Look, I will end the captivity^[] of Jacob's tents

and have compassion on his dwellings.

The city will be rebuilt on the mound of its ruins,

and the citadel will stand in its rightful place.

¹⁹Thanksgiving will come out of them,

along with the sound of rejoicing.

I will multiply them,

and they will not decrease in number.

I will glorify them,

and they will not be insignificant.

²⁰Their children will be as they were long ago,

and their community will be established in my presence.

I will punish all who oppress them.

²¹Their strong leader will be one of their own,

and their ruler will arise from among them.

I will summon him to come near,

and he will approach me,

for who would be bold enough to approach me?

says the Lord.

²²You shall be my people,

and I will be your God.

²³Look, a storm is coming from the Lord!

His wrath has gone out,

like a whirlwind twisting down,

whirling over the heads of the wicked.

²⁴The Lord's anger will not turn back

until he has completely fulfilled the purposes of his heart.

In later days you will understand it.

Matthew 26:57-75

Jesus' First Trial in the Sanhedrin

(Mark 14:53-65)

⁵⁷Those who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the experts in the law and the elders were assembled. ⁵⁸Peter was following him at a distance and went as far as the courtyard of the high priest. He went inside and sat down with the guards to see how it would turn out.

⁵⁹The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death. ⁶⁰They found none, even though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward ⁶¹and said, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

⁶²The high priest stood up and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these men are testifying against you?” ⁶³But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I place you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!”

⁶⁴Jesus said to him, “It is as you have said. But I tell you, soon you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

⁶⁵Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? See, you have just heard the blasphemy! ⁶⁶What do you think?”

They answered, “He is deserving of death!” ⁶⁷Then they spit in his face and punched him. Some slapped him ⁶⁸and said, “Prophesy to us, Christ! Who hit you?”

Peter Denies Jesus

(Mark 14:66-72; Luke 22:54-62; John 18:15-18,25-27)

⁶⁹Meanwhile Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant girl came to him and said, “You were also with Jesus the Galilean.”

⁷⁰But he denied it in front of everyone, saying, “I don't know what you're talking about.”

⁷¹When Peter went out to the entryway, someone else saw him and said to those who were there, “This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

⁷²Again Peter denied it with an oath and said, “I do not know the man.”

⁷³After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them because even your accent gives you away.”

⁷⁴Then he began to curse and to swear, “I do not know the man!” Just then the rooster crowed. ⁷⁵And Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.