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Today's Readings
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Monday, 18th March 2019 --- 9 Baramhat 1735
Matins
Proverbs 1 : 20 - 33 Isaiah 8 : 13 - 9 : 7
Proverbs 1 : 20 - 33
Chapter 1
| 20 | Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares.
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| 21 | She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words:
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| 22 | "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.
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| 23 | Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.
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| 24 | Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,
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| 25 | Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke,
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| 26 | I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes,
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| 27 | When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.
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| 28 | "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.
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| 29 | Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD,
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| 30 | They would have none of my counsel And despised my every rebuke.
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| 31 | Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies.
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| 32 | For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them;
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| 33 | But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil."
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Isaiah 8 : 13 - 9 : 7
Chapter 8
| 13 | The LORD of hosts, Him you shall hallow; Let Him be your fear, And let Him be your dread.
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| 14 | He will be as a sanctuary, But a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense To both the houses of Israel, As a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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| 15 | And many among them shall stumble; They shall fall and be broken, Be snared and taken."
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| 16 | Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among my disciples.
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| 17 | And I will wait on the LORD, Who hides His face from the house of Jacob; And I will hope in Him.
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| 18 | Here am I and the children whom the LORD has given me! We are for signs and wonders in Israel From the LORD of hosts, Who dwells in Mount Zion.
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| 19 | And when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?
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| 20 | To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
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| 21 | They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
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| 22 | Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.
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Chapter 9
| 1 | Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed, As when at first He lightly esteemed The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, And afterward more heavily oppressed her, By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, In Galilee of the Gentiles.
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| 2 | The people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, Upon them a light has shined.
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| 3 | You have multiplied the nation And increased its joy; They rejoice before You According to the joy of harvest, As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
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| 4 | For You have broken the yoke of his burden And the staff of his shoulder, The rod of his oppressor, As in the day of Midian.
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| 5 | For every warrior's sandal from the noisy battle, And garments rolled in blood, Will be used for burning and fuel of fire.
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| 6 | For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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| 7 | Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
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Acknowledgement
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