Daily Readings for February 7

Daily Readings for February 7
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Exodus 15

1.Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, "I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. 2.Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father's God, and I will exalt him. 3.Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name. 4.He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea⁸. 5.The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone. 6.Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces. 7.In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble. 8.With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. 9.The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.' 10.You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11.Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12.You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

13."You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation. 14.The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. 15.Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed. Trembling takes hold of the mighty men of Moab. All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. 16.Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone-- until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people pass over who you have purchased. 17.You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established. 18.Yahweh shall reign forever and ever."

19.For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea. 20.Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. 21.Miriam answered them, "Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."

22.Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea⁹, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23.When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.¹⁰ 24.The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" 25.Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them; 26.and he said, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you."

27.They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

Psalm 69

1.Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! 2.I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 3.I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God. 4.Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away. 5.God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you. 6.Don't let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don't let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel. 7.Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. 8.I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children. 9.For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. 10.When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. 11.When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. 12.Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards. 13.But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. 14.Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15.Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me. 16.Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. 17.Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily! 18.Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies. 19.You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. 20.Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none. 21.They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. 22.Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. 23.Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent. 24.Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. 25.Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. 26.For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. 27.Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness. 28.Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. 29.But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me. 30.I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 31.It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs. 32.The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live. 33.For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people. 34.Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein! 35.For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it. 36.The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

Mark 3

1.He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. 2.They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. 3.He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up." 4.He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent. 5.When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other. 6.The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

7.Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea, 8.from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him. 9.He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him. 10.For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him. 11.The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!" 12.He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

13.He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him. 14.He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach, 15.and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: 16.Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter; 17.James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder; 18.Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot; 19.and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

He came into a house. 20.The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21.When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane." 22.The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and, "By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons."

23.He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? 24.If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25.If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26.If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can't stand, but has an end. 27.But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house. 28.Most certainly I tell you, all sins of the descendants of man will be forgiven, including their blasphemies with which they may blaspheme; 29.but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin" 30.--because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

31.His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him. 32.A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters⁵ are outside looking for you."

33.He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" 34.Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! 35.For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."