Tuesday 28 February 2023 DAILY LECTIONARY

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Tuesday 28 February 2023 
DAILY LECTIONARY

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Deuteronomy 9:4-12

When the Lord your God thrusts them out before you, do not say to
yourself, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has
brought me in to occupy this land’; it is rather because of the
wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before
you. It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of
your heart that you are going in to occupy their land; but because of
the wickedness of those nations that the Lord your God is
dispossessing them before you, in order to fulfil the promise that the
Lord made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob.

 Know, then, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land
to occupy because of your righteousness; for you are a stubborn
people. Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God
to wrath in the wilderness; you have been rebellious against the Lord
from the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this
place.

 Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so
angry with you that he was ready to destroy you. When I went up the
mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant
that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain for forty days
and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water. And the Lord
gave me the two stone tablets written with the finger of God; on them
were all the words that the Lord had spoken to you at the mountain out
of the fire on the day of the assembly. At the end of forty days and
forty nights the Lord gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of
the covenant. Then the Lord said to me, ‘Get up, go down quickly
from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted
corruptly. They have been quick to turn from the way that I commanded
them; they have cast an image for themselves.’
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Hebrews 3:1-11

Therefore, brothers and sisters,* holy partners in a heavenly calling,
consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,
was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also ‘was
faithful in all* God’s* house.’ Yet Jesus* is worthy of more glory
than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honour than the
house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of
all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God’s* house as a
servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later. Christ,
however, was faithful over God’s* house as a son, and we are his
house if we hold firm* the confidence and the pride that belong to
hope.
 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
‘Today, if you hear his voice, 
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
   as on the day of testing in the wilderness, 
where your ancestors put me to the test,
   though they had seen my works for forty years.
Therefore I was angry with that generation,
and I said, “They always go astray in their hearts,
   and they have not known my ways.” 
As in my anger I swore,
   “They will not enter my rest.” ’
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John 2:13-22

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In
the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the
money-changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he
drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He
also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their
tables. He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things
out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ His
disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will
consume me.’ The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us
for doing this?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in
three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews then said, ‘This temple
has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it
up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the temple of his body.
After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he
had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus
had spoken.
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Morning Psalms: Psalm 45

Psalm 45

My heart overflows with a goodly theme;
   I address my verses to the king;
   my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe. 

You are the most handsome of men;
   grace is poured upon your lips;
   therefore God has blessed you for ever. 
Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,
   in your glory and majesty. 

In your majesty ride on victoriously
   for the cause of truth and to defend* the right;
   let your right hand teach you dread deeds. 
Your arrows are sharp
   in the heart of the king’s enemies;
   the peoples fall under you. 

Your throne, O God,* endures for ever and ever.
   Your royal sceptre is a sceptre of equity; 
   you love righteousness and hate wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
   with the oil of gladness beyond your companions; 
   your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.
>From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad; 
   daughters of kings are among your ladies of honour;
   at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir. 

Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear;
   forget your people and your father’s house, 
   and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your lord, bow to him; 
   the people* of Tyre will seek your favour with gifts,
   the richest of the people with all kinds of wealth. 

The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;* 
   in many-coloured robes she is led to the king;
   behind her the virgins, her companions, follow. 
With joy and gladness they are led along
   as they enter the palace of the king. 

In the place of ancestors you, O king,* shall have sons;
   you will make them princes in all the earth. 
I will cause your name to be celebrated in all generations;
   therefore the peoples will praise you for ever and ever.
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Evening Psalms: Psalm 47, 48

Psalm 47

Clap your hands, all you peoples;
   shout to God with loud songs of joy. 
For the Lord, the Most High, is awesome,
   a great king over all the earth. 
He subdued peoples under us,
   and nations under our feet. 
He chose our heritage for us,
   the pride of Jacob whom he loves.
          Selah 

God has gone up with a shout,
   the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. 
Sing praises to God, sing praises;
   sing praises to our King, sing praises. 
For God is the king of all the earth;
   sing praises with a psalm.* 

God is king over the nations;
   God sits on his holy throne. 
The princes of the peoples gather
   as the people of the God of Abraham.
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
   he is highly exalted.

Psalm 48

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised
   in the city of our God.
His holy mountain, beautiful in elevation,
   is the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
   the city of the great King. 
Within its citadels God
   has shown himself a sure defence. 

Then the kings assembled,
   they came on together. 
As soon as they saw it, they were astounded;
   they were in panic, they took to flight; 
trembling took hold of them there,
   pains as of a woman in labour, 
as when an east wind shatters
   the ships of Tarshish. 
As we have heard, so have we seen
   in the city of the Lord of hosts,
in the city of our God,
   which God establishes for ever.
          Selah 

We ponder your steadfast love, O God,
   in the midst of your temple. 
Your name, O God, like your praise,
   reaches to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with victory. 
   Let Mount Zion be glad,
let the towns* of Judah rejoice
   because of your judgements. 

Walk about Zion, go all around it,
   count its towers, 
consider well its ramparts;
   go through its citadels,
that you may tell the next generation 
   that this is God,
our God for ever and ever.
   He will be our guide for ever.
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