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Today's Readings
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Tuesday, 19th March 2024 --- 10 Baramhat 1740
Matins
Job 19 : 1 - 27 Isaiah 5 : 7 - 16
Job 19 : 1 - 27
Chapter 19
| 1 | Then Job answered and said:
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| 2 | "How long will you torment my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
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| 3 | These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me.
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| 4 | And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me.
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| 5 | If indeed you exalt yourselves against me, And plead my disgrace against me,
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| 6 | Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.
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| 7 | "If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard. If I cry aloud, there is no justice.
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| 8 | He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths.
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| 9 | He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
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| 10 | He breaks me down on every side, And I am gone; My hope He has uprooted like a tree.
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| 11 | He has also kindled His wrath against me, And He counts me as one of His enemies.
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| 12 | His troops come together And build up their road against me; They encamp all around my tent.
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| 13 | "He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
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| 14 | My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
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| 15 | Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants, Count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
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| 16 | I call my servant, but he gives no answer; I beg him with my mouth.
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| 17 | My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am repulsive to the children of my own body.
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| 18 | Even young children despise me; I arise, and they speak against me.
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| 19 | All my close friends abhor me, And those whom I love have turned against me.
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| 20 | My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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| 21 | "Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!
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| 22 | Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
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| 23 | "Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!
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| 24 | That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forever!
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| 25 | For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth;
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| 26 | And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God,
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| 27 | Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
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Isaiah 5 : 7 - 16
Chapter 5
| 7 | For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; For righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.
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| 8 | Woe to those who join house to house; They add field to field, Till there is no place Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!
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| 9 | In my hearing the LORD of hosts said, "Truly, many houses shall be desolate, Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.
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| 10 | For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah."
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| 11 | Woe to those who rise early in the morning, That they may follow intoxicating drink; Who continue until night, till wine inflames them!
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| 12 | The harp and the strings, The tambourine and flute, And wine are in their feasts; But they do not regard the work of the LORD, Nor consider the operation of His hands.
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| 13 | Therefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst.
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| 14 | Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself And opened its mouth beyond measure; Their glory and their multitude and their pomp, And he who is jubilant, shall descend into it.
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| 15 | People shall be brought down, Each man shall be humbled, And the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.
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| 16 | But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness.
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Acknowledgement
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