First Reading
Jeremiah 20:10-13
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
10For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.
11But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore those who persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly put to shame, because they have not understood the eternal shame, which never shall be effaced.
12And you, OH Lord of hosts, prover of the righteous, who seest the reins and the heart: let me see, I beg you, your vengeance on them: for to you I have laid open my cause.
13Sing you to the Lord, praise the Lord: because he has rescued the soul of the poor out of the hand of the evil.