Saturday, July 13 | St. Andrew's Anglican Church

Psalm 20

¹ May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble!
    May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!
²May he send you help from the sanctuary
    and give you support from Zion!
³May he remember all your offerings
    and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices!
⁴May he grant you your heart’s desire
    and fulfill all your plans!
⁵May we shout for joy over your salvation,
    and in the name of our God set up our banners!
    May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!
⁶Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with the saving might of his right hand.
⁷Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
    but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
⁸They collapse and fall,
    but we rise and stand upright.
⁹O Lord, save the king!
    May he answer us when we call.

Psalm 21

¹ O Lord, in your strength the king rejoices,
    and in your salvation how greatly he exults!
²You have given him his heart’s desire
    and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
³For you meet him with rich blessings;
    you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.
⁴He asked life of you; you gave it to him,
    length of days forever and ever.
⁵His glory is great through your salvation;
    splendor and majesty you bestow on him.
⁶For you make him most blessed forever;
    you make him glad with the joy of your presence.
⁷For the king trusts in the Lord,
    and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.
⁸Your hand will find out all your enemies;
    your right hand will find out those who hate you.
⁹You will make them as a blazing oven
    when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath,
    and fire will consume them.
¹⁰You will destroy their descendants from the earth,
    and their offspring from among the children of man.
¹¹Though they plan evil against you,
    though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
¹²For you will put them to flight;
    you will aim at their faces with your bows.
¹³Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength!
    We will sing and praise your power.

Psalm 110

¹ The Lord says to my Lord:
    “Sit at my right hand,
    until I make your enemies your footstool.”
²The Lord sends forth from Zion
    your mighty scepter.
    Rule in the midst of your enemies!
³Your people will offer themselves freely
    on the day of your power,
    in holy garments;
    from the womb of the morning,
    the dew of your youth will be yours.
⁴The Lord has sworn
    and will not change his mind,
    “You are a priest forever
    after the order of Melchizedek.”
⁵The Lord is at your right hand;
    he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
⁶He will execute judgment among the nations,
    filling them with corpses;
    he will shatter chiefs
    over the wide earth.
⁷He will drink from the brook by the way;
    therefore he will lift up his head.

Psalm 116

¹ I love the Lord, because he has heard
    my voice and my pleas for mercy.
²Because he inclined his ear to me,
    therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
³The snares of death encompassed me;
    the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
    I suffered distress and anguish.
⁴Then I called on the name of the Lord:
    “O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”
⁵Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
    our God is merciful.
⁶The Lord preserves the simple;
    when I was brought low, he saved me.
⁷Return, O my soul, to your rest;
    for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
⁸For you have delivered my soul from death,
    my eyes from tears,
    my feet from stumbling;
⁹I will walk before the Lord
    in the land of the living.
¹⁰I believed, even when I spoke:
    “I am greatly afflicted”;
¹¹I said in my alarm,
    “All mankind are liars.”
¹²What shall I render to the Lord
    for all his benefits to me?
¹³I will lift up the cup of salvation
    and call on the name of the Lord,
¹⁴I will pay my vows to the Lord
    in the presence of all his people.
¹⁵Precious in the sight of the Lord
    is the death of his saints.
¹⁶O Lord, I am your servant;
    I am your servant, the son of your maidservant.
    You have loosed my bonds.
¹⁷I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving
    and call on the name of the Lord.
¹⁸I will pay my vows to the Lord
    in the presence of all his people,
¹⁹in the courts of the house of the Lord,
    in your midst, O Jerusalem.
    Praise the Lord!

Psalm 117

¹ Praise the Lord, all nations!
    Extol him, all peoples!
² For great is his steadfast love toward us,
    and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
    Praise the Lord!

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

¹ Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, ²all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, ³the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. ⁴And the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.” ⁵So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord, ⁶and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day. ⁷Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated. ⁸And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. ⁹And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses. ¹⁰And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, ¹¹none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, ¹²and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

Romans 10:14-21

¹⁴How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? ¹⁵And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” ¹⁶But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?” ¹⁷So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. ¹⁸But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for
    “Their voice has gone out to all the earth,
    and their words to the ends of the world.”
¹⁹But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,
    “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation;
    with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”
²⁰Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,
    “I have been found by those who did not seek me;
    I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”
²¹But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

Matthew 24:32-51

³²“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. ³³So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. ³⁴Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. ³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. ³⁶“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. ³⁷For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, ³⁹and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ⁴⁰Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. ⁴¹Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. ⁴²Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. ⁴³But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. ⁴⁵“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. ⁴⁷Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. ⁴⁸But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ ⁴⁹and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards, ⁵⁰the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know ⁵¹and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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