{"id":35709,"date":"2024-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laeffm.sb\/?p=35709"},"modified":"2024-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T13:00:00","slug":"todays-readings-16apr2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laeffm.sb\/2024\/04\/16\/todays-readings-16apr2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Readings 16Apr2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joel 1\u20132:16 ()<\/small><\/h2>

(<\/a>)<\/small><\/h2>\n

1:1 <\/b>The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:<\/p>\n

<\/span>\n2 <\/b>  Hear this, you elders;<\/span>
    give ear, all inhabitants of the land!<\/span>
  Has such a thing happened in your days,<\/span>
    or in the days of your fathers?<\/span>
3 <\/b>  Tell your children of it,<\/span>
    and let your children tell their children,<\/span>
    and their children to another generation.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n4 <\/b>  What the cutting locust left,<\/span>
    the swarming locust has eaten.<\/span>
  What the swarming locust left,<\/span>
    the hopping locust has eaten,<\/span>
  and what the hopping locust left,<\/span>
    the destroying locust has eaten.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n5 <\/b>  Awake, you drunkards, and weep,<\/span>
    and wail, all you drinkers of wine,<\/span>
  because of the sweet wine,<\/span>
    for it is cut off from your mouth.<\/span>
6 <\/b>  For a nation has come up against my land,<\/span>
    powerful and beyond number;<\/span>
  its teeth are lions\u2019 teeth,<\/span>
    and it has the fangs of a lioness.<\/span>
7 <\/b>  It has laid waste my vine<\/span>
    and splintered my fig tree;<\/span>
  it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;<\/span>
    their branches are made white.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n8 <\/b>  Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth<\/span>
    for the bridegroom of her youth.<\/span>
9 <\/b>  The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off<\/span>
    from the house of the LORD.<\/span>
  The priests mourn,<\/span>
    the ministers of the LORD.<\/span>
10 <\/b>  The fields are destroyed,<\/span>
    the ground mourns,<\/span>
  because the grain is destroyed,<\/span>
    the wine dries up,<\/span>
    the oil languishes.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n11 <\/b>  Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil;<\/span>
    wail, O vinedressers,<\/span>
  for the wheat and the barley,<\/span>
    because the harvest of the field has perished.<\/span>
12 <\/b>  The vine dries up;<\/span>
    the fig tree languishes.<\/span>
  Pomegranate, palm, and apple,<\/span>
    all the trees of the field are dried up,<\/span>
  and gladness dries up<\/span>
    from the children of man.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/p>

<\/span>\n13 <\/b>  Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;<\/span>
    wail, O ministers of the altar.<\/span>
  Go in, pass the night in sackcloth,<\/span>
    O ministers of my God!<\/span>
  Because grain offering and drink offering<\/span>
    are withheld from the house of your God.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n14 <\/b>  Consecrate a fast;<\/span>
    call a solemn assembly.<\/span>
  Gather the elders<\/span>
    and all the inhabitants of the land<\/span>
  to the house of the LORD your God,<\/span>
    and cry out to the LORD.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n15 <\/b>  Alas for the day!<\/span>
  For the day of the LORD is near,<\/span>
    and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.<\/span>
16 <\/b>  Is not the food cut off<\/span>
    before our eyes,<\/span>
  joy and gladness<\/span>
    from the house of our God?<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n17 <\/b>  The seed shrivels under the clods;<\/span>
    the storehouses are desolate;<\/span>
  the granaries are torn down<\/span>
    because the grain has dried up.<\/span>
18 <\/b>  How the beasts groan!<\/span>
    The herds of cattle are perplexed<\/span>
  because there is no pasture for them;<\/span>
    even the flocks of sheep suffer.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n19 <\/b>  To you, O LORD, I call.<\/span>
  For fire has devoured<\/span>
    the pastures of the wilderness,<\/span>
  and flame has burned<\/span>
    all the trees of the field.<\/span>
20 <\/b>  Even the beasts of the field pant for you<\/span>
    because the water brooks are dried up,<\/span>
  and fire has devoured<\/span>
    the pastures of the wilderness.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/p>

<\/span>\n2:1 <\/b>  Blow a trumpet in Zion;<\/span>
    sound an alarm on my holy mountain!<\/span>
  Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,<\/span>
    for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near,<\/span>
2 <\/b>  a day of darkness and gloom,<\/span>
    a day of clouds and thick darkness!<\/span>
  Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains<\/span>
    a great and powerful people;<\/span>
  their like has never been before,<\/span>
    nor will be again after them<\/span>
    through the years of all generations.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n3 <\/b>  Fire devours before them,<\/span>
    and behind them a flame burns.<\/span>
  The land is like the garden of Eden before them,<\/span>
    but behind them a desolate wilderness,<\/span>
    and nothing escapes them.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n4 <\/b>  Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,<\/span>
    and like war horses they run.<\/span>
5 <\/b>  As with the rumbling of chariots,<\/span>
    they leap on the tops of the mountains,<\/span>
  like the crackling of a flame of fire<\/span>
    devouring the stubble,<\/span>
  like a powerful army<\/span>
    drawn up for battle.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n6 <\/b>  Before them peoples are in anguish;<\/span>
    all faces grow pale.<\/span>
7 <\/b>  Like warriors they charge;<\/span>
    like soldiers they scale the wall.<\/span>
  They march each on his way;<\/span>
    they do not swerve from their paths.<\/span>
8 <\/b>  They do not jostle one another;<\/span>
    each marches in his path;<\/span>
  they burst through the weapons<\/span>
    and are not halted.<\/span>
9 <\/b>  They leap upon the city,<\/span>
    they run upon the walls,<\/span>
  they climb up into the houses,<\/span>
    they enter through the windows like a thief.<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n10 <\/b>  The earth quakes before them;<\/span>
    the heavens tremble.<\/span>
  The sun and the moon are darkened,<\/span>
    and the stars withdraw their shining.<\/span>
11 <\/b>  The LORD utters his voice<\/span>
    before his army,<\/span>
  for his camp is exceedingly great;<\/span>
    he who executes his word is powerful.<\/span>
  For the day of the LORD is great and very awesome;<\/span>
    who can endure it?<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/p>

<\/span>\n12 <\/b>  \u201cYet even now,\u201d declares the LORD,<\/span>
    \u201creturn to me with all your heart,<\/span>
  with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;<\/span>
13 <\/b>    and rend your hearts and not your garments.\u201d<\/span>
  Return to the LORD your God,<\/span>
    for he is gracious and merciful,<\/span>
  slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;<\/span>
    and he relents over disaster.<\/span>
14 <\/b>  Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,<\/span>
    and leave a blessing behind him,<\/span>
  a grain offering and a drink offering<\/span>
    for the LORD your God?<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n15 <\/b>  Blow the trumpet in Zion;<\/span>
    consecrate a fast;<\/span>
  call a solemn assembly;<\/span>
16 <\/b>    gather the people.<\/span>
  Consecrate the congregation;<\/span>
    assemble the elders;<\/span>
  gather the children,<\/span>
    even nursing infants.<\/span>
  Let the bridegroom leave his room,<\/span>
    and the bride her chamber.<\/span>
<\/p><\/span>\n

Mark 3:1\u20136 ()<\/small><\/h2>

(<\/a>)<\/small><\/h2>\n

3:1 <\/b>Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. 2 <\/b>And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 3 <\/b>And he said to the man with the withered hand, \u201cCome here.\u201d<\/span> 4 <\/b>And he said to them, \u201cIs it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?\u201d<\/span> But they were silent. 5 <\/b>And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, \u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d<\/span> He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. 6 <\/b>The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.<\/p>\n

Psalm 56 ()<\/small><\/h2>

(<\/a>)<\/small><\/h2>\n

To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.<\/h4>\n

<\/span>\n56:1 <\/b>  Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;<\/span>
    all day long an attacker oppresses me;<\/span>
2 <\/b>  my enemies trample on me all day long,<\/span>
    for many attack me proudly.<\/span>
3 <\/b>  When I am afraid,<\/span>
    I put my trust in you.<\/span>
4 <\/b>  In God, whose word I praise,<\/span>
    in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.<\/span>
    What can flesh do to me?<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n5 <\/b>  All day long they injure my cause;<\/span>
    all their thoughts are against me for evil.<\/span>
6 <\/b>  They stir up strife, they lurk;<\/span>
    they watch my steps,<\/span>
    as they have waited for my life.<\/span>
7 <\/b>  For their crime will they escape?<\/span>
    In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n8 <\/b>  You have kept count of my tossings;<\/span>
    put my tears in your bottle.<\/span>
    Are they not in your book?<\/span>
9 <\/b>  Then my enemies will turn back<\/span>
    in the day when I call.<\/span>
    This I know, that God is for me.<\/span>
10 <\/b>  In God, whose word I praise,<\/span>
    in the LORD, whose word I praise,<\/span>
11 <\/b>  in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.<\/span>
    What can man do to me?<\/span>
<\/span>\n<\/span>\n12 <\/b>  I must perform my vows to you, O God;<\/span>
    I will render thank offerings to you.<\/span>
13 <\/b>  For you have delivered my soul from death,<\/span>
    yes, my feet from falling,<\/span>
  that I may walk before God<\/span>
    in the light of life.<\/span>
<\/p><\/span>\n

Proverbs 10:14\u201316 ()<\/small><\/h2>

(<\/a>)<\/small><\/h2>\n

<\/span>\n14 <\/b>  The wise lay up knowledge,<\/span>
    but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.<\/span>
15 <\/b>  A rich man\u2019s wealth is his strong city;<\/span>
    the poverty of the poor is their ruin.<\/span>
16 <\/b>  The wage of the righteous leads to life,<\/span>
    the gain of the wicked to sin.<\/span>
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