First Reading
Jeremiah 15:10, 16-21
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.
10Sorrow is me, my mother: why have you borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither has any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.
16Your words were found, and I did eat them, and your word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for your name is called upon me, OH Lord God of hosts.
17I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of your hand: I sat alone, because you have satisfied me with threats.
18Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.
19Therefore thus says the Lord: If you will be converted, I will convert you, and you shall stand before my face; and if you will separate the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall be turned to you, and you shall not be turned to them.
20And I will make you to this people as a strong wall of brass: and they shall fight against you, and shall not prevail: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you, says the Lord.
21And I will deliver you out of the hand of the evil, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the mighty.