Friday 2 October 2015

15You shall say:To the Lord our God belongs righteousness,but to us confusion of face, as at this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,16to our kings, to our princes,to our priests, to our prophets,and to our fathers,17because we have sinned before the Lord.18We have disobeyed himand have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God,to walk in the commandments of the Lordthat he has set before us.19Since the daythat the Lord brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt to this present day,we have been disobedient to the Lord our God,and we have been negligent in not listening to his voice.20Therefore the plagues have clung to us,along with the cursewhich the Lord declared through Moses his servant in the daythat he brought our fathers out of the land of Egypt to give us a landthat flows with milk and honey, as at this day.21Nevertheless we didn’t listen to the voice of the Lord our God,according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us,22but we each walked in the imagination of his own wicked heart,to serve strange godsand to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God.

1God, the nations have come into your inheritance.They have defiled your holy temple.They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.2They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

3They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.There was no one to bury them.4We have become a reproach to our neighbors,a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.5How long, Lord?Will you be angry forever?Will your jealousy burn like fire?

8Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,for we are in desperate need.

9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

1In that hour the disciples came to Jesus,saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”

2Jesus called a little child to himself,and set him in the middle of them3and said, “Most certainly I tell you,unless you turn and become as little children,you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.4Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.5Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,· · · verses 6–9 are not read10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones,for I tell youthat in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.