September 3, 2042
Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος: In the beginning was the Word(John 1:1)
καὶ γνώσεσθε τὴν ἀλήθειαν, καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια ἐλευθερώσει ὑμᾶς: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free(John 8:32)
Today's Reading
Song of Solomon 5:1–6:13
Psalm 103:24–30 (MT: 104)
Proverbs 24:19–20
1 Corinthians 13:1–13
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Old TestamentSeptuagint (Brenton)
Song of Solomon 5:1–6:13
1Let my kinsman come down into his garden, and eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; yea, brethren, drink abundantly. 2I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, [saying], Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. 3I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them? 4My kinsman put forth his hand by the hole [of the door], and my belly was moved for him. 5I rose up to open to my kinsman; my hands dropped myrrh, my fingers choice myrrh, on the handles of the lock. 6I opened to my kinsman; my kinsman was gone: my soul failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not. 7The watchmen that go their rounds in the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 8I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and the virtues of the field: if ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love. 9What is thy kinsman [more] than [another] kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? what is thy kinsman [more] than [another] kinsman, that thou hast so charged us? 10My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads. 11His head is [as] very fine gold, his locks are flowing, black as a raven. 12His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, washed with milk, sitting by the pools. 13His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: his lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh. 14His hands are as turned gold set with beryl: his belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone. 15His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: his form is as Libanus, choice as the cedars. 16His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, and this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem. Chapter 61Whither is thy kinsman gone, thou beautiful among women? whither has thy kinsman turned aside? [tell us], and we will seek him with thee. 2My kinsman is gone down to his garden, to the beds of spice, to feed [his flock] in the gardens, and to gather lilies. 3I am my kinsman's, and my kinsman is mine, who feeds among the lilies. 4Thou art fair, my companion, as Pleasure, beautiful as Jerusalem, terrible as [armies] set in array. 5Turn away thine eyes from before me, for they have ravished me: thy hair is as flocks of goats which have appeared from Galaad. 6Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn [sheep], that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: thy lips are as a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely. 7Thy cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, [being seen] without thy veil. 8There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number. 9My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the [only] one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yea, and the concubines, and they will praise her. 10Who is this that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, choice as the sun, terrible as [armies] set in array? 11I went down to the garden of nuts, to look at the fruits of the valley, to see if the vine flowered, [if] the pomegranates blossomed. 12There I will give thee my breasts: my soul knew [it] not: it made me as the chariots of Aminadab.
PsalmSeptuagint (Brenton)
Psalm 103:24–30(MT: 104)
MT Psalm 104 = LXX Psalm 103 (standard offset).
24How great are thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast thou wrought them all: the earth is filled with thy creation. 25[So is] this great and wide sea: there are things creeping innumerable, small animals and great. 26There go the ships; [and] this dragon whom thou hast made to play in it. 27All wait upon thee, to give them [their] food in due season. 28When thou hast given [it] them, they will gather [it]; and when thou hast opened thine hand, they shall all be filled with good. 29But when thou hast turned away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou wilt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and return to their dust. 30Thou shalt send forth thy Spirit, and they shall be created; and thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
ProverbSeptuagint (Brenton)
Proverbs 24:19–20
19Rejoice not in evil-doers, neither be envious of sinners. 20For the evil man shall have no posterity: and the light of the wicked shall be put out.
New TestamentKing James Version
1 Corinthians 13:1–13
1Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
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