response reading 38. psalms 92.
It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High,
to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp.
For you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD;
I sing for joy at the works of your hands.
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;
planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,
proclaiming, "The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him."


hymnal 331
1 True hearted, wholehearted, faithful and loyal, King of our lives, by Thy grace we will be;
Under the standard exalted and royal, Strong in Thy strength we will battle for Thee.
Peal out the watchword! Silence it never! Song of our spirits, rejoicing and free;
Peal out the watchword! loyal forever! King of our lives, by Thy grace we will be.
2 True hearted, wholehearted, fullest allegiance Yielding hence forth to our glorious King;
Valiant endeavour and loving obedience, Freely and joyously now would we bring
Peal out the watchword! Silence it never! Song of our spirits, rejoicing and free;
Peal out the watchword! loyal forever! King of our lives, by Thy grace we will be.
3 True hearted, wholehearted, Savior all glorious Take Thy great power and reign there alone,
Over our wills and affections victorious, Freely surrendered and wholy Thine own
Peal out the watchword! Silence it never! Song of our spirits, rejoicing and free;
Peal out the watchword! loyal forever! King of our lives, by Thy grace we will be.

2 Kings 17:1-12
1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years.
2 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.
3 Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up to attack Hoshea, who had been Shalmaneser's vassal and had paid him tribute.
4 But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So king of Egypt, and he no longer paid tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore Shalmaneser seized him and put him in prison.
5 The king of Assyria invaded the entire land, marched against Samaria and laid siege to it for three years.
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.
7 All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods
8 and followed the practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.
9 The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city they built themselves high places in all their towns.
10 They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
11 At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the LORD to anger.
12 They worshiped idols, though the LORD had said, "You shall not do this."


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.