Daily Lectionary

November 6, 2027

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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 8:18-9:12

Jeremiah Reacts

¹⁸My joy is gone, grief is upon me,^[]

and my heart is sick.

¹⁹I hear the cry of my dear people from a distant land:

“Is the Lord not in Zion?

Is her King not there?”

The Lord Responds

Why have they provoked my anger with their carved images,

with their worthless foreign idols?

The People

²⁰The harvest is past,

summer has ended,

and we have not been saved.

Jeremiah's Grief

²¹Because my people are crushed, I have been crushed.

I am in mourning, and horror seizes me.

²²Is there no balm in Gilead?^[]

Is there no physician there?

Why has the health of my people not been restored?

9¹I wish my head were a spring of water

and my eyes a fountain of tears.

Then I would weep day and night

for the fallen of my people.^[]

²I wish there was a lodging place for travelers

in the wilderness.

Then I would leave my people

and get away from them.

They are all adulterers,

a society of traitors.

The Lord Gives a Warning

³They bend their tongues like bows, to deceive.

It is not by faithfulness that they prevail in the land.

They go from evil to evil,

and they do not acknowledge me,

declares the Lord.

⁴Everyone should be on guard against his friend.

Do not trust any brother,

for every brother is really a deceiver,

and every friend spreads slander.

⁵Everyone betrays his friend,

and no one speaks the truth.

They have taught their tongues to lie.

They wear themselves out with sinning.

⁶You, Jeremiah, live in the midst of deception!

In their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,

declares the Lord.

⁷Therefore this is what the Lord of Armies says.

Watch me. I will refine them and test them.

What else can I do for my dear people?

⁸Their tongues are like deadly arrows.

They speak deceitfully.

With their mouths they speak peacefully to their neighbors,

but in their hearts they set traps.

⁹Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord.

Shall I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah's Grief

¹⁰I will cry and sob for the mountains.

I will sing a lament for the pastures in the wilderness.

They are desolate and untraveled,

and not even the lowing of cattle is heard.

From the birds in the sky to all the animals below, everything has fled.

They are all gone.

The Lord's Threat

¹¹I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a jackals' den,

and I am going to lay waste to the cities of Judah,

so that no one can live there.

Jeremiah's Question

¹²Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord so that he can explain it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through it?

Lord

Matthew 23:13-39

Woes and Warnings

(Luke 11:37-54)

¹³“But woe to you, experts in the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven right in front of people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor do you permit those who are trying to enter to do so.^[] ¹⁵Woe to you, experts in the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel the sea and the land to make one convert, and then when he is converted, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

¹⁶“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ ¹⁷You blind fools! After all, which is greater: the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸And you say, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated.’ ¹⁹You blind men! After all, which is greater: the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? ²⁰So whoever swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it. ²¹Also, whoever swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who dwells in it. ²²And whoever swears by heaven, swears by God's throne and by him who sits on it.

²³“Woe to you, experts in the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give ten percent of your mint, dill, and cumin, but you have neglected the more important matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. You should have done these things and not failed to do the other things. ²⁴Blind guides, you strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!

²⁵“Woe to you, experts in the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of a cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish so that the outside may become clean too.

²⁷“Woe to you, experts in the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that appear beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead people's bones and every kind of uncleanness. ²⁸In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

²⁹“Woe to you, experts in the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, ³⁰and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ ³¹By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³²Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. ³³You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape being condemned to hell?

³⁴“Look, this is why I am sending you prophets, wise men, and experts in the law. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town. ³⁵As a result, you will be held responsible for all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. ³⁶Amen I tell you: All these things will come upon this generation.

³⁷“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! ³⁸Look, your house is left to you desolate. ³⁹For I tell you, you will certainly not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”^[]