Today's Readings
Exodus 32 : 7 - 15
7 | And the LORD said to Moses, "Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. |
8 | They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!"' |
9 | And the LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! |
10 | Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation." |
11 | Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: "LORD, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? |
12 | Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, "He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people. |
13 | Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, "I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever."' |
14 | So the LORD relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people. |
15 | And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand. The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written. |
Wisdom 1 : 1 - 9
1 | Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart. |
2 | For he is found by them that tempt him not: and he sheweth himself to them that have faith in him. |
3 | For perverse thoughts seperate from God: and his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise: |
4 | For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins. |
5 | For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee from the deceitful, and will withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding, and he shall not abide when iniquity cometh in. |
6 | For the spirit of wisdom is benevolent, and will not acquit the evil speaker from his lips: for God is witness of his reins, and he is a true searcher of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue. |
7 | For the spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world: and that, which containeth all things, hath knowledge of the voice. |
8 | Therefore he that speaketh unjust things cannot be hid, neither shall the chastising judgment pass him by. |
9 | For inquisition shall be made into the thoughts of the ungodly: and the hearing of his words shall come to God, to the chastising of his iniquities. |