Sunday, 16 June

1.   "Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God drives you, 2.   "and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3.   "that the LORD your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you. 4.   "If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you. 5.   "Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 6.   "And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. 7.   "Also the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 8.   "And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and do all His commandments which I command you today. 9.   "The LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the LORD will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over your fathers, 10.   "if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this Book of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 11.   "For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. 12.   "It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 13.   "Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ 14.   "But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. 15.   "See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, 16.   "in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. 17.   "But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, 18.   "I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. 19.   "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20.   "that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

1.   Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. 2.   And he said to them: "I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I can no longer go out and come in. Also the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross over this Jordan.’ 3.   "The LORD your God Himself crosses over before you; He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua himself crosses over before you, just as the LORD has said. 4.   "And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites and their land, when He destroyed them. 5.   "The LORD will give them over to you, that you may do to them according to every commandment which I have commanded you. 6.   "Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you." 7.   Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it. 8.   "And the LORD, He is the one who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed."

1.   The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. 2.   "Lift up a banner on the high mountain, Raise your voice to them; Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles. 3.   I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger––Those who rejoice in My exaltation." 4.   The noise of a multitude in the mountains, Like that of many people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts musters The army for battle. 5.   They come from a far country, From the end of heaven––The LORD and His weapons of indignation, To destroy the whole land. 6.   Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. 7.   Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man’s heart will melt, 8.   And they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them ; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces will be like flames. 9.   Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it. 10.   For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine. 11.   "I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12.   I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13.   Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the LORD of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger. 14.   It shall be as the hunted gazelle, And as a sheep that no man takes up; Every man will turn to his own people, And everyone will flee to his own land. 15.   Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. 16.   Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished. 17.   "Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, Who will not regard silver; And as for gold, they will not delight in it. 18.   Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will not spare children. 19.   And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20.   It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there. 21.   But wild beasts of the desert will lie there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches will dwell there, And wild goats will caper there. 22.   The hyenas will howl in their citadels, And jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, And her days will not be prolonged."

1.   Now when they drew near Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples; 2.   and He said to them, "Go into the village opposite you; and as soon as you have entered it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it and bring it . 3.   "And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it,’ and immediately he will send it here." 4.   So they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door outside on the street, and they loosed it. 5.   But some of those who stood there said to them, "What are you doing, loosing the colt?" 6.   And they spoke to them just as Jesus had commanded. So they let them go. 7.   Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it, and He sat on it. 8.   And many spread their clothes on the road, and others cut down leafy branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9.   Then those who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: "Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ 10.   Blessed is the kingdom of our father David That comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!" 11.   And Jesus went into Jerusalem and into the temple. So when He had looked around at all things, as the hour was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve. 12.   Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry. 13.   And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14.   In response Jesus said to it, "Let no one eat fruit from you ever again." And His disciples heard it . 15.   So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 16.   And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. 17.   Then He taught, saying to them, "Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’" 18.   And the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, because all the people were astonished at His teaching. 19.   When evening had come, He went out of the city.