Evening Prayer Readings
Tuesday after Trinity 11

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The Second Lesson
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The Psalter


Psalm 78


The Seventy-Eighth Psalm

Attendite, popule.


HEAR my law, O my people; * incline your ears unto the words of my mouth.
 
I will open my mouth in a parable; * I will declare hard sentences of old;
 
Which we have heard and known, * and such as our fathers have told us;
 
That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come; * but to show the honour of the LORD, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done.
 
He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, * which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children;
 
That their posterity might know it, * and the children which were yet unborn;
 
To the intent that when they came up, * they might show their children the same;
 
That they might put their trust in God; * and not to forget the works of God, but to keep his commandments;
 
And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation; * a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit clave not stedfastly unto God;
 
Like as the children of Ephraim; * who being harnessed, and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the day of battle.
 
They kept not the covenant of God, * and would not walk in his law;
 
But forgat what he had done, * and the wonderful works that he had showed for them.
 
Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers, in the land of Egypt, * even in the field of Zoan.
 
He divided the sea, and let them go through; * he made the waters to stand on an heap.
 
In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, * and all the night through with a light of fire.
 
He clave the hard rocks in the wilderness, * and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth.
 
He brought waters out of the stony rock, * so that it gushed out like the rivers.
 
Yet for all this they sinned more against him, * and provoked the Most Highest in the wilderness.
 
They tempted God in their hearts, * and required meat for their lust.
 
They spake against God also, saying, * Shall God prepare a table in the wilderness?
 
He smote the stony rock indeed, that the water gushed out, and the streams flowed withal; * but can he give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?
 
When the LORD heard this, he was wroth; * so the fire was kindled in Jacob, and there came up heavy displeasure against Israel;
 
Because they believed not in God, * and put not their trust in his help.
 
So he commanded the clouds above, * and opened the doors of heaven.
 
He rained down manna also upon them for to eat, * and gave them food from heaven.
 
So man did eat angels' food; * for he sent them meat enough.
 
He caused the east-wind to blow under heaven; * and through his power he brought in the southwestwind.
 
He rained flesh upon them as thick as dust, * and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.
 
He let it fall among their tents, * even round about their habitation.
 
So they did eat, and were well filled; for he gave them their own desire: * they were not disappointed of their lust.
 
But while the meat was yet in their mouths, the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the wealthiest of them; * yea, and smote down the chosen men that were in Israel.
 
But for all this they sinned yet more, * and believed not his wondrous works.
 
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, * and their years in trouble.
 
When he slew them, they sought him, * and turned them early, and inquired after God.
 
And they remembered that God was their strength, * and that the High God was their redeemer.
 
Nevertheless, they did but flatter him with their mouth, * and dissembled with him in their tongue.
 
For their heart was not whole with him, * neither continued they stedfast in his covenant.
 
But he was so merciful, that he forgave their misdeeds, * and destroyed them not.
 
Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away, * and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise.
 
For he considered that they were but flesh, * and that they were even a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
 
Many a time did they provoke him in the wilderness, * and grieved him in the desert.
 
They turned back, and tempted God, * and provoked the Holy One in Israel.
 
They thought not of his hand, * and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy;
 
How he had wrought his miracles in Egypt, * and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
 
He turned their waters into blood, * so that they might not drink of the rivers.
 
He sent flies among them, and devoured them up; * and frogs to destroy them.
 
He gave their fruit unto the caterpillar, * and their labour unto the grasshopper.
 
He destroyed their vines with hailstones, * and their mulberry-trees with the frost.
 
He smote their cattle also with hailstones, * and their flocks with hot thunderbolts.
 
He cast upon them the furiousness of his wrath, anger, displeasure, and trouble: * and sent evil angels among them.
 
He made a way to his indignation, and spared not their soul from death; * but gave their life over to the pestilence;
 
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, * the most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham.
 
But as for his own people, he led them forth like sheep, * and carried them in the wilderness like a flock.
 
He brought them out safely, that they should not fear, * and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea.
 
And brought them within the borders of his sanctuary, * even to this mountain, which he purchased with his right hand.
 
He cast out the heathen also before them, * caused their land to be divided among them for an heritage, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
 
Yet they tempted and displeased the Most High God, * and kept not his testimonies.
 
They turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers; * starting aside like a broken bow.
 
For they grieved him with their hill-altars, * and provoked him to displeasure with their images.
 
When God heard this, he was wroth, * and took sore displeasure at Israel;
 
So that he forsook the tabernacle in Shiloh, * even the tent that he had pitched among men.
 
He delivered their power into captivity, * and their beauty into the enemy's hand.
 
He gave his people over also unto the sword, * and was wroth with his inheritance.
 
The fire consumed their young men, * and their maidens were not given in marriage.
 
Their priests were slain with the sword, * and there were no widows to make lamentation.
 
So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, * and like a giant refreshed with wine.
 
He drave his enemies backward, * and put them to a perpetual shame.
 
He refused the tabernacle of Joseph, * and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
 
But chose the tribe of Judah, * even the hill of Sion which he loved.
 
And there he built his temple on high, * and laid the foundation of it like the ground which he hath made continually.
 
He chose David also his servant, * and took him away from the sheep-folds:
 
As he was following the ewes with their young he took him, * that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
 
So he fed them with a faithful and true heart, * and ruled them prudently with all his power.



 

The First Lesson


Nahum 2


He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back. Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture. She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.



 

The Second Lesson

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.



 

The Collect

Eleventh Sunday after Trinity

O GOD, who declarest thy almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity; Mercifully grant unto us such a measure of thy grace, that we, running the way of thy commandments, may obtain thy gracious promises, and be made partakers of thy heavenly treasure; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.



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