The Daily Readings for Saturday, 3 October 205

The Daily Readings for Saturday, 3 October 2015
Baruch 4: Poem of encouragement
5 Be confident, my people,
    you who are the legacy of Israel!
6 You weren’t sold to the nations
for complete destruction,
    but you were handed over
    to your opponents
    because you made God angry.
7 You upset your creator
    when you sacrificed to demons
    and not to God.
8 You forgot the eternal God
who raised you;
    and you caused pain to Jerusalem,
    who nurtured you.
9 Jerusalem saw the wrath of God
that came on you and said:
    Neighbors of Zion, listen!
    God has brought me great grief.
10 I have watched my sons and daughters taken captive,
    the action of the eternal one.
11 I nursed them joyfully,
    but I sent them away
    with tears and mourning.
12 Don’t any of you rejoice over me,
    a widow deserted by many.
My children avoided God’s Law,
    so I was stripped bare
    because of their sins.
27 Children, be confident!
Cry out to God,
    for the one who brought this on you will remember you.
28 Just as you plotted
to stray away from God,
    return with ten times as much effort
    to seek him out.
29 The one who brought
these horrible things on you
    will bring you eternal joy
    along with your deliverance.
Psalm 69:33 (32) The afflicted will see it and rejoice;
you seeking after God, let your heart revive.
34 (33) For Adonai pays attention to the needy
and doesn’t scorn his captive people.
35 (34) Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and whatever moves in them.
36 (35) For God will save Tziyon,
he will build the cities of Y’hudah.
[His people] will settle there and possess it.
37 (36) The descendants of his servants will inherit it,
and those who love his name will live there.

Luke 10:17 The seventy came back jubilant. “Lord,” they said, “with your power, even the demons submit to us!” 18 Yeshua said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Remember, I have given you authority; so you can trample down snakes and scorpions, indeed, all the Enemy’s forces; and you will remain completely unharmed. 20 Nevertheless, don’t be glad that the spirits submit to you; be glad that your names have been recorded in heaven.”
21 At that moment he was filled with joy by the Ruach HaKodesh and said, “Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I thank you because you concealed these things from the sophisticated and educated, yet revealed them to ordinary people. Yes, Father, I thank you that it pleased you to do this.
22 “My Father has handed over everything to me. Indeed, no one fully knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” 23 Then, turning to the talmidim, he said, privately, “How blessed are the eyes that see what you are seeing! 24 Indeed, I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things you are seeing but did not see them, and to hear the things you are hearing but did not hear them.”
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