Daily Lectionary

November 28, 2023

November 27, 2023 November 29, 2023

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.

Isaiah 2:1-22

2¹This is the message that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

The Glory of the Mountain of the Lord

²This will take place in the last days:

The mountain of the House of the Lord will be established

as the head of the mountains.

It will be raised above the hills,

and all nations will stream to it like a river.

³Many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord,

to the House of the God of Jacob.

Then he will instruct us about his ways,

and we will walk in his paths.”

For the law^[] will go out from Zion,

and the word of the Lord will go out from Jerusalem.

⁴He will judge between the nations,

and he will mediate for many peoples.

Then they will beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into blades for trimming vines.

Nation will not lift up sword against nation,

nor will they learn war anymore.

⁵O house of Jacob, come,

and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

The Glory of the Lord Comes in Judgment

⁶But you, Lord, have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob,

because they are filled up with practices from the East

and with fortune tellers like the Philistines,

and they join themselves to the heathen.^[]

⁷Their land is full of silver and gold,

and there is no end to their treasures.

Their land is also full of horses,

and there is no end to their chariots.

⁸Their land is full of gods that are not gods.^[]

They worship the work made by their own hands,

things that their own fingers have made.

⁹Mankind is humbled,

and man is brought low.

Do not forgive them.

¹⁰Go into the rocks,

and hide in the dust,

from the terror of the Lord

and from the glory of his majesty.

¹¹The proud eyes of mankind will be brought low,

the arrogance of man will be humbled,

and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

¹²There is a day coming for the Lord of Armies,

a day against everyone who is proud and arrogant,

against everyone who is lifted up

—he will be pressed down—

¹³against all the cedars of Lebanon, that are so tall and lofty,

against all the oaks of Bashan,

¹⁴against all the high mountains,

against all the hills that are lifted up,

¹⁵against every tall tower,

against every fortified wall,

¹⁶against all the ships of Tarshish,^[]

and against all the beautiful ships.^[]

¹⁷The pride of mankind will be humbled,

and the arrogance of man will be brought low.

Then the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

¹⁸Those gods that are not gods will disappear completely.

¹⁹People will flee into caves in the rocks

and into holes in the ground,

to hide from the terror of the Lord

and from the glory of his majesty,

when he arises to make the earth tremble.

²⁰In that day people will throw away to the moles^[] and bats

their worthless gods of silver

and their worthless gods of gold,

that they made for themselves to worship.

²¹They will go into the clefts in the rocks

and into the crevices in the cliffs,

to hide from the terror of the Lord

and from the glory of his majesty,

when he arises to make the earth tremble.

²²Give up trusting in mankind.

All they have is breath in their nostrils.

What are they worth anyway?

1 Peter 1:13-25

A Call to Holy Living

¹³Therefore, after preparing your minds for action by exercising self-control, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. ¹⁴As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. ¹⁵Rather, just as the one who called you is holy, so also be holy in everything you do. ¹⁶For it is written, “Be holy, because I am holy.”^[]

¹⁷If you call on the Father who judges impartially, according to the work of each person, conduct yourselves during the time of your pilgrimage in reverence, ¹⁸because you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, not with things that pass away, such as silver or gold, ¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, like a lamb without blemish or spot. ²⁰He was chosen before the foundation of the world but revealed in these last times for your sake. ²¹Through him you are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

²²Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth,^[] resulting in sincere brotherly love, love one another constantly from a pure heart. ²³For you have been born again, not from perishable seed but from imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴For:

All flesh is like grass,

and all its glory is like a flower of the field.

The grass withers,

and the flower falls,

²⁵but the word of the Lord endures forever.^[]

And this is the word that was preached to you.