First Reading
Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19
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.
7The way of the righteous is right, the path of the righteous is right to walk in.
8And in the way of your judgments, OH Lord, we have patiently waited for you: your name, and your remembrance are the desire of the soul.
9My soul has desired you in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to you. When you shall do your judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness.
12Lord, you will give us peace: for you have wrought all our works for us.
16Lord, they have sought after you in distress, in the trouble of murmuring your instruction was with them.
17As a woman with child, when she draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs: so are we become in your presence, OH Lord.
18We have conceived, and been as it were in work, and have brought forth wind: we have not wrought salvation on the earth, therefore the inhabitants of the earth have not fallen.
19Your dead men shall live, my killed shall rise again: awake, and give praise, you that dwell in the dust: for your dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants you shall pull down into ruin.