May 14 I Samuel 1-3 Psalm 59:14-17 Proverbs 13:17-18 John 4 Hannah’s Prayer “And she, bitter of soul, prayed to Yahweh and wept despondently. And she made a vow and said, ‘O Yahweh of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a seed amongst men, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life and a razor shall never come on his head.” I Samuel 1:10-11 LSB

May 13 Ruth 3-4 Psalm 59:6-13 Proverbs 13:15-16 John 3 Whoever Believes “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son o

May 12 Ruth 1-2 Psalm 59:1-5 Proverbs 13:13-14 John 2 Loyalty And Faithful Service “But Ruth said, ‘Do not press me to forsake you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may Yahweh do to me, and more, if anything but death separates you and me.’” Ruth 1:16-17 LSB This passage is often read at weddings because it gives us the per

May 11 Judges 19-21 Psalm 58:6-11 Proverbs 13:11-12 John 1 Right In His Own Eyes “In those days there was no king in Israel, everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Judges 21:25 LSB “And men will say, ‘Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on Earth!” Psalm 58:11 LSB Our reading today in Judges is very disturbing. The treatment of women in this period of history is shocking, and this happened among the children of Israel,