Daily Lectionary

February 8, 2025

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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.

Job 5:1-27

5¹Call out! Is there anyone there to answer you?

To which of the holy ones will you turn?

²It's true, the fool is killed by resentment,

and the gullible are put to death by jealousy.

³I myself have seen a fool putting down roots,

but immediately I pronounced a curse on his home.^[]

⁴His children are far from safety.

They are crushed at the city gate without a defender.

⁵His harvest is eaten by the hungry,

who snatch it away, even from among the thorns,

and the thirsty^[] swallow his children's wealth.

⁶Disaster does not just spring up from the dust,

nor does trouble sprout from the soil.

⁷No, mankind is born^[] for trouble as surely as flames fly upward.

⁸But I want to appeal to God.

I want to present my case to him.^[]

⁹He does great things that are beyond investigation,

and miracles that are too many to be counted.

¹⁰He provides rain for the earth.

He waters the fields in the countryside.

¹¹He raises the lowly to the heights,

and he lifts those who mourn to safety.

¹²He foils the plots of clever schemers,

so that their hands achieve no success.

¹³He traps the wise in their schemes,

and the plans of the devious come to a swift end.

¹⁴By day they encounter darkness,

and at noon they grope around as if it were night.

¹⁵He saves the poor from mouths that cut like a sword

and from the hand of the strong.

¹⁶He does this so that the helpless will have hope,

and injustice will shut its mouth.

¹⁷Consider this:

How blessed is the man whom God corrects!

Do not reject the discipline of the Almighty!

¹⁸For though he may inflict wounds, he also bandages them.

Though he may strike, his hands also heal.

¹⁹From six calamities he will rescue you.

In seven no harm will touch you.

²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death,

and in battle he will redeem you from the power of the sword.

²¹You will be hidden from the lash of the tongue,

and you will not be afraid of devastation when it comes.

²²You will laugh at devastation and hunger.

You will not be afraid of the wild animals of the countryside,

²³because there will be a covenant between you and the stones in the field,

and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

²⁴You will know that your tent is secure,

and when you inspect your property, you will find nothing missing.

²⁵You will know that your offspring will be many,

and your descendants will be like grass from the earth.

²⁶You will come to the grave at a ripe old age,

like a stack of sheaves that is gathered in season.

²⁷Consider this:

We have investigated this carefully, and it is true!

Pay close attention and apply it to yourself!

John 2:13-25

Jesus Clears Out the Temple

¹³The Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers sitting at tables. ¹⁵He made a whip of cords and drove everyone out of the temple courts, along with the sheep and oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶To those selling doves he said, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a place of business!”

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”^[]

¹⁸So the Jews responded, “What sign are you going to show us to prove you can do these things?”

¹⁹Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”

²⁰The Jews said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! And you are going to raise it in three days?” ²¹But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body. ²²When Jesus was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. Then they believed the Scripture and what Jesus had said.

²³While he was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many believed in his name as they observed the miraculous signs he was doing. ²⁴But Jesus, on his part, was not entrusting himself to them, because he knew them all. ²⁵He did not need anyone to testify about man, because he himself knew what was in man.