Bible Readings for Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

– The Time after Pentecost

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Psalm 78:1-4, 52-72

1. O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.

2. I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from of old—

3. what we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us.

4. We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done.

53. He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.

54. Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.

55. He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

56. But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.

57. Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.

58. They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

59. When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.

60. He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.

61. He sent [the ark of] his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.

62. He gave his people over to the sword; he was very angry with his inheritance.

63. Fire consumed their young men, and their maidens had no wedding songs;

64. their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.

65. Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.

66. He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.

67. Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;

68. but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.

69. He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.

70. He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;

71. from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.

72. And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.

1 Samuel 21:1-6

1. David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he met him, and asked, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”2. David answered Ahimelech the priest, “The king charged me with a certain matter and said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about your mission and your instructions.’ As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. 3. Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”4. But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here—provided the men have kept themselves from women.” 5. David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever I set out. The men’s things are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!” 6. So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.

John 5:1-18