62,420,5:1-10

response reading 62. psalm 143.
O LORD, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.
Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.
The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.
I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.
I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.
Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails.
For your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life; in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant.


hymnal 420
1 Take time to be holy, speak off with the Lord;
Abide in Him always, and feed on His Word
Make friends with God's children; help those who are weak,
Forgetting in nothing His blessing to seek.
2 Take time to be holy, the world rushes on;
Spend much time in secret with Jesua alone
By looking to Jesus, like Him thou shalt be;
Thy friends in thy conduct His likeness shall see.
3 Take time to be holy, let Him be thy Guide;
And run not before Him, whatever betide,
In joy or in sorrow, still follow thy Lord
And, looking to Jesus, still trust in His Word
4 Take time to be holy, be calm in thy soul;
Each thought and each motive beneath His control;
Thus led by His Spirit to fountains of love,
Thou soon shalt be fitted for service above.



Numbers 5:1-10
1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 "Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has an infectious skin disease or a discharge of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean because of a dead body.
3 Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them."
4 The Israelites did this; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had instructed Moses.
5 The LORD said to Moses,
6 "Say to the Israelites: 'When a man or woman wrongs another in any way and so is unfaithful to the LORD, that person is guilty
7 and must confess the sin he has committed. He must make full restitution for his wrong, add one fifth to it and give it all to the person he has wronged.
8 But if that person has no close relative to whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest, along with the ram with which atonement is made for him.
9 All the sacred contributions the Israelites bring to a priest will belong to him.
10 Each man's sacred gifts are his own, but what he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.' "


Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors,
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. amen.