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Bible in a Year – September – 14 | Day – 257

This is not the Readings at the Mass. For the Mass Readings, check the Mass Readings taken from the New Jerusalem Bible or the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible.
September – 14 | Day – 257
Old Testament: Nehemiah – 6:1-7:36 | Amos – 5

1 Now it happened that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem, an Arab, and our other enemies, had heard that I had built the wall, and that there was no interruption remaining in it, (even though, at that time, I had not set up the double doors at the gates,)

2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying: “Come, and let us strike a pact together in the villages, on the plain of Ono.” But they were thinking that they would do me harm.

3 Therefore, I sent messengers to them, saying: “I am doing a great work, and I cannot descend, lest perhaps it may be neglected when I go out and descend to you.”

4 Then they sent to me, with this same word, four times. And I responded to them with the same word as before.

5 And Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time, with the former word, and he had a letter in his hand written in this manner:

6 It has been heard among the Gentiles, and Geshem has said it, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel, and because of this, you are building the wall and thinking to raise yourself as a king over them. For this reason,

7 you also have stationed prophets, who preach about you in Jerusalem, saying: ‘There is a king in Judea!’ But the king will hear about these words. Therefore, come now, so that we may go to counsel together.”

8 And I sent to them, saying: “There has been nothing done according to these words, which you have spoken. For you are inventing these things from your own heart.”

9 For all these men wished to frighten us, thinking that our hands would cease from the work, and that we would cease. For this reason, I strengthened my hands all the more.

10 And I entered into the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, in secret. And he said: “Let us consult together in the house of God, in the midst of the temple. And let us close the doors of the temple. For they will come to kill you, and they will arrive in the night to put you to death.”

11 And I said: “How could anyone like me flee? And who like me should enter the temple, so that he may live? I will not enter.”

12 And I understood that God had not sent him, but he had spoken to me as if he were prophesying, and that Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

13 For he had accepted money, so that I would be afraid, and would sin, and so that they would have some evil with which to rebuke me.

14 Remember me, O Lord, because of Tobiah and Sanballat, because of their works of this kind. Then, too, Noadiah, a prophetess, and the rest of the prophets, would have made me afraid.

15 Now the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of the month of Elul, in fifty-two days.

16 Then it happened that, when all our enemies had heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they were downcast within themselves. For they knew that this work had been accomplished by God.

17 But also, in those days, many letters were being sent by the nobles of the Jews to Tobiah, and were arriving from Tobiah to them.

18 For there were many in Judea who had sworn an oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah, and because Jehohanan, his son, had married the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.

19 Moreover, they praised him before me, and they reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters, so that he might make me afraid.

1 Then, after the wall was built, and I set up the double doors, and I enrolled the gatekeepers, and the singing men, and the Levites,

2 I instructed Hanani, my brother, and Hananiah, the leader of the house of Jerusalem, (for he seemed to be a truthful man, fearing God more than the others,)

3 and I said to them: “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot.” And while they were standing there, the gates were closed and barred. And I stationed guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each one in his turn, and each one opposite his own house.

4 Now the city was great and very wide, and the people in its midst were few, and the houses were not yet built.

5 But God had given to my heart, and I gathered the nobles, and the magistrates, and the common people, so that I might enroll them. And I found a book of the census of those who first went up, and in it there was found written:

6 These are the sons of the province, who ascended from the captivity of the transmigration, those whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had taken away, and who returned into Jerusalem and Judea, each one to his own city.

7 They arrived with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

8 The sons of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.

9 The sons of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.

10 The sons of Arah, six hundred fifty-two.

11 The sons of Pahath-moab of the sons of Jeshua and of Joab, two thousand eight hundred eighteen.

12 The sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

13 The sons of Zattu, eight hundred forty-five.

14 The sons of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.

15 The sons of Binnui, six hundred forty-eight.

16 The sons of Bebai, six hundred twenty-eight.

17 The sons of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty-two.

18 The sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven.

19 The sons of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven.

20 The sons of Adin, six hundred fifty-five.

21 The sons of Ater, sons of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

22 The sons of Hashum, three hundred twenty-eight.

23 The sons of Bezai, three hundred twenty-four.

24 The sons of Hariph, one hundred twelve.

25 The sons of Gibeon, ninety-five.

26 The sons of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.

27 The men of Anathoth, one hundred twenty-eight.

28 The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two.

29 The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.

30 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty-one.

31 The men of Michmas, one hundred twenty-two.

32 The men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred twenty-three.

33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two.

34 The men of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

35 The sons of Harim, three hundred twenty.

36 The sons of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.

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1 Listen to this word, which I lift over you in lamentation. The house of Israel has fallen, and it will no longer rise again.

2 The virgin of Israel has been thrown onto her land, there is no one who can raise her up.

3 For thus says the Lord God: In the city from which a thousand departed, a hundred will remain, and in that from which a hundred departed, ten will remain, in the house of Israel.

4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and you will live.

5 But do not be willing to seek Bethel, and do not be willing to enter Gilgal, and you will not cross into Beer-sheba. For Gilgal will be led into captivity, and Bethel will be useless.

6 Seek the Lord and live. Otherwise, the house of Joseph may be destroyed with fire, and it will devour, and there will be no one who can extinguish Bethel.

7 You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.

8 The Maker of Arcturus and Orion, who turns darkness into daybreak and who changes day into night; who calls forth the waters of the sea and who pours them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

9 It is he who smiles destruction on the healthy, and who brings pillaging upon the powerful.

10 They held hatred for the one who corrects at the gate, and they have abhorred the one who speaks perfectly.

11 Therefore, on his behalf, because you have torn apart the poor and stolen choice prey from him: you will build houses with square stones and you will not dwell in them; you will plant the most delightful vineyards, and you will not drink wine from them.

12 For I know your many wicked deeds and the strength of your sins, you enemies of the just, accepting bribes, and depriving the poor at the gate.

13 Therefore, the prudent will be silent at that time, for it is an evil time.

14 Seek good and not evil, so that you may live. And the Lord God of hosts will be with you, just as you have asked.

15 Hate evil and love good, and establish judgment at the gate. Perhaps then the Lord God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

16 Therefore, thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Sovereign: In all the streets, there will be wailing. And in every place where they are outdoors, they will say, “Woe, woe!” And they will call the farmer to mourn, and those who know mourning to lamentation.

17 And in all the vineyards there will be wailing. For I will cross through your midst, says the Lord.

18 Woe to those who desire the day of the Lord. What is it to you? The day of the Lord is this: darkness and not light.

19 It is as if a man flees from the face of a lion, only to have a bear meet him; or, he enters a house and leans with his hand against the wall, only to have a snake bite him.

20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

21 I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.

22 For if you offer me holocausts and your gifts, I will not receive them; and I will not look upon the vows of your fatness.

23 Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre.

24 And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.

25 Was it you who offered victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, house of Israel?

26 And you carried a tabernacle for your Moloch and the image of your idols: the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

27 And I will cause you to go into captivity across Damascus, says the Lord. The God of hosts is his name.

Psalms: Psalms – 106:6-12

6 We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.

7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

8 And he saved them for his own name’s sake: that he might make his power known.

9 And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up: and he led them through the depths, as in a wilderness.

10 And he saved them from the hand of them that hated them: and he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11 And the water covered them that afflicted them: there was not one of them left.

12 And they believed his words: and they sang his praises.

New Testament: First Corinthians – 15:1-29

1 And so I make known to you, brothers, the Gospel that I preached to you, which you also received, and on which you stand.

2 By the Gospel, too, you are being saved, if you hold to the understanding that I preached to you, lest you believe in vain.

3 For I handed on to you, first of all, what I also received: that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures;

4 and that he was buried; and that he rose again on the third day, according to the Scriptures;

5 and that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven.

6 Next he was seen by more than five hundred brothers at one time, many of whom remain, even to the present time, although some have fallen asleep.

7 Next, he was seen by James, then by all the Apostles.

8 And last of all, he was seen also by me, as if I were someone born at the wrong time.

9 For I am the least of the Apostles. I am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.

10 But, by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me has not been empty, since I have labored more abundantly than all of them. Yet it is not I, but the grace of God within me.

11 For whether it is I or they: so we preach, and so you have believed.

12 Now if Christ is preached, that he rose again from the dead, how is it that some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

13 For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not risen.

14 And if Christ has not risen, then our preaching is useless, and your faith is also useless.

15 Then, too, we would be found to be false witnesses of God, because we would have given testimony against God, saying that he had raised up Christ, when he had not raised him up, if, indeed, the dead do not rise again.

16 For if the dead do not rise again, then neither has Christ risen again.

17 But if Christ has not risen, then your faith is vain; for you would still be in your sins.

18 Then, too, those who have fallen asleep in Christ would have perished.

19 If we have hope in Christ for this life only, then we are more miserable than all men.

20 But now Christ has risen again from the dead, as the first-fruits of those who sleep.

21 For certainly, death came through a man. And so, the resurrection of the dead came through a man

22 And just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be brought to life,

23 but each one in his proper order: Christ, as the first-fruits, and next, those who are of Christ, who have believed in his advent.

24 Afterwards is the end, when he will have handed over the kingdom to God the Father, when he will have emptied all principality, and authority, and power.

25 For it is necessary for him to reign, until he has set all his enemies under his feet.

26 Lastly, the enemy called death shall be destroyed. For he has subjected all things under his feet. And although he says,

27 All things have been subjected to him, without doubt he does not include the One who has subjected all things to him.

28 And when all things will have been subjected to him, then even the Son himself will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all.

29 Otherwise, what will those who are being baptized for the dead do, if the dead do not rise again at all? Why then are they being baptized for them?

Simplest Bible in a Year plan compiled using the “Catholic Public Domain Version Bible“. This is not the Readings at the Mass. For the Mass Readings, check the Mass Readings taken from the New Jerusalem Bible or the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible.
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