Saturday 19 February 2022 DAILY LECTIONARY

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Saturday 19 February 2022 
DAILY LECTIONARY

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Genesis 35:1-20

God said to Jacob, ‘Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make
an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your
brother Esau.’ So Jacob said to his household and to all who were
with him, ‘Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify
yourselves, and change your clothes; then come, let us go up to
Bethel, that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in
the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.’
So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the
rings that were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak that
was near Shechem.

 As they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities all around
them, so that no one pursued them. Jacob came to Luz (that is,
Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who
were with him, and there he built an altar and called the place
El-bethel,* because it was there that God had revealed himself to him
when he fled from his brother. And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died,
and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So it was called
Allon-bacuth.*

 God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and he
blessed him. God said to him, ‘Your name is Jacob; no longer shall
you be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.’ So he was
called Israel. God said to him, ‘I am God Almighty:* be fruitful and
multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and
kings shall spring from you. The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac
I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after
you.’ Then God went up from him at the place where he had spoken
with him. Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with
him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out a drink-offering on it, and
poured oil on it. So Jacob called the place where God had spoken with
him Bethel.
 Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when they were still some
distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had a
difficult labour. When she was in her difficult labour, the midwife
said to her, ‘Do not be afraid; for now you will have another
son.’ As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him
Ben-oni;* but his father called him Benjamin.* So Rachel died, and she
was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), and Jacob set
up a pillar at her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which
is there to this day.
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1 John 3:11-18

For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we
should love one another. We must not be like Cain who was from the
evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because
his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. Do not be
astonished, brothers and sisters,* that the world hates you. We know
that we have passed from death to life because we love one another.
Whoever does not love abides in death. All who hate a brother or
sister* are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal
life abiding in them. We know love by this, that he laid down his life
for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does
God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a
brother or sister* in need and yet refuses help?

 Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth
and action.
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John 11:1-16

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and
her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume
and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. So the
sisters sent a message to Jesus,* ‘Lord, he whom you love is ill.’
But when Jesus heard it, he said, ‘This illness does not lead to
death; rather it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be
glorified through it.’ Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and
her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus* was ill, he
stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

 Then after this he said to the disciples, ‘Let us go to Judea
again.’ The disciples said to him, ‘Rabbi, the Jews were just now
trying to stone you, and are you going there again?’ Jesus answered,
‘Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the
day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. But
those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them.’
After saying this, he told them, ‘Our friend Lazarus has fallen
asleep, but I am going there to awaken him.’ The disciples said to
him, ‘Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right.’ Jesus,
however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he
was referring merely to sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly,
‘Lazarus is dead. For your sake I am glad I was not there, so that
you may believe. But let us go to him.’ Thomas, who was called the
Twin,* said to his fellow-disciples, ‘Let us also go, that we may
die with him.’
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Morning Psalms: Psalm 107:33-43, 108

Psalm 107:33-43

He turns rivers into a desert,
   springs of water into thirsty ground, 
a fruitful land into a salty waste,
   because of the wickedness of its inhabitants. 
He turns a desert into pools of water,
   a parched land into springs of water. 
And there he lets the hungry live,
   and they establish a town to live in; 
they sow fields, and plant vineyards,
   and get a fruitful yield. 
By his blessing they multiply greatly,
   and he does not let their cattle decrease. 

When they are diminished and brought low
   through oppression, trouble, and sorrow, 
he pours contempt on princes
   and makes them wander in trackless wastes; 
but he raises up the needy out of distress,
   and makes their families like flocks. 
The upright see it and are glad;
   and all wickedness stops its mouth. 
Let those who are wise give heed to these things,
   and consider the steadfast love of the Lord.

Psalm 108

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;*
   I will sing and make melody.
   Awake, my soul!* 
Awake, O harp and lyre!
   I will awake the dawn. 
I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples,
   and I will sing praises to you among the nations. 
For your steadfast love is higher than the heavens,
   and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. 

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens,
   and let your glory be over all the earth. 
Give victory with your right hand, and answer me,
   so that those whom you love may be rescued. 

God has promised in his sanctuary:*
   ‘With exultation I will divide up Shechem,
   and portion out the Vale of Succoth. 
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
   Ephraim is my helmet;
   Judah is my sceptre. 
Moab is my wash-basin;
   on Edom I hurl my shoe;
   over Philistia I shout in triumph.’ 

Who will bring me to the fortified city?
   Who will lead me to Edom? 
Have you not rejected us, O God?
   You do not go out, O God, with our armies. 
O grant us help against the foe,
   for human help is worthless. 
With God we shall do valiantly;
   it is he who will tread down our foes.
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Evening Psalms: Psalm 33

Psalm 33

Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous.
   Praise befits the upright. 
Praise the Lord with the lyre;
   make melody to him with the harp of ten strings. 
Sing to him a new song;
   play skilfully on the strings, with loud shouts. 

For the word of the Lord is upright,
   and all his work is done in faithfulness. 
He loves righteousness and justice;
   the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord. 

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
   and all their host by the breath of his mouth. 
He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;
   he put the deeps in storehouses. 

Let all the earth fear the Lord;
   let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 
For he spoke, and it came to be;
   he commanded, and it stood firm. 

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
   he frustrates the plans of the peoples. 
The counsel of the Lord stands for ever,
   the thoughts of his heart to all generations. 
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord,
   the people whom he has chosen as his heritage. 

The Lord looks down from heaven;
   he sees all humankind. 
>From where he sits enthroned he watches
   all the inhabitants of the earth— 
he who fashions the hearts of them all,
   and observes all their deeds. 
A king is not saved by his great army;
   a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. 
The war horse is a vain hope for victory,
   and by its great might it cannot save. 

Truly the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
   on those who hope in his steadfast love, 
to deliver their soul from death,
   and to keep them alive in famine. 

Our soul waits for the Lord;
   he is our help and shield. 
Our heart is glad in him,
   because we trust in his holy name. 
Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
   even as we hope in you.
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