Evening Prayer Is Updated Everyday Apart From Sunday    

Jeremiah 4.19–end    

19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!   Oh, the walls of my heart!My heart is beating wildly;   I cannot keep silent;for I hear the sound of the trumpet,   the alarm of war.20 Disaster overtakes disaster,   the whole land is laid waste.Suddenly my tents are destroyed,   my curtains in a moment.21 How long must I see the standard,   and hear the sound of the trumpet?22 ‘For my people are foolish,   they do not know me;they are stupid children,   they have no understanding.They are skilled in doing evil,   but do not know how to do good.’23 I looked on the earth, and lo, it was waste and void;   and to the heavens, and they had no light.24 I looked on the mountains, and lo, they were quaking,   and all the hills moved to and fro.25 I looked, and lo, there was no one at all,   and all the birds of the air had fled.26 I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert,   and all its cities were laid in ruins   before the Lord, before his fierce anger.27 For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.28 Because of this the earth shall mourn,   and the heavens above grow black;for I have spoken, I have purposed;   I have not relented nor will I turn back.29 At the noise of horseman and archer   every town takes to flight;they enter thickets; they climb among rocks;   all the towns are forsaken,   and no one lives in them.30 And you, O desolate one,what do you mean that you dress in crimson,   that you deck yourself with ornaments of gold,   that you enlarge your eyes with paint?In vain you beautify yourself.   Your lovers despise you;   they seek your life.31 For I heard a cry as of a woman in labour,   anguish as of one bringing forth her first child,the cry of daughter Zion gasping for breath,   stretching out her hands,‘Woe is me! I am fainting before killers!’

John 5.1–18    

5 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. 3In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralysed.5One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’ 7The sick man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.’ 8Jesus said to him, ‘Stand up, take your mat and walk.’ 9At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.Now that day was a sabbath. 10So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, ‘It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.’ 11But he answered them, ‘The man who made me well said to me, “Take up your mat and walk.” ’ 12They asked him, ‘Who is the man who said to you, “Take it up and walk”?’ 13Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there. 14Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, ‘See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you.’ 15The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath. 17But Jesus answered them, ‘My Father is still working, and I also am working.’ 18For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

Psalm 75

1 We give you thanks, O God, we give you thanks, ♦︎   for your name is near, as your wonderful deeds declare.2 ‘I will seize the appointed time; ♦︎   I, the Lord, will judge with equity.3 ‘Though the earth reels and all that dwell in her, ♦︎   it is I that hold her pillars steady.4 ‘To the boasters I say, “Boast no longer,” ♦︎   and to the wicked, “Do not lift up your horn.5 ‘ “Do not lift up your horn on high; ♦︎   do not speak with a stiff neck.” ’6 For neither from the east nor from the west, ♦︎   nor yet from the wilderness comes exaltation.7 But God alone is judge; ♦︎   he puts down one and raises up another.8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, ♦︎   well mixed and full of foaming wine.9 He pours it out for all the wicked of the earth; ♦︎   they shall drink it, and drain the dregs.10 But I will rejoice for ever ♦︎   and make music to the God of Jacob.11 All the horns of the wicked will I break, ♦︎   but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.