Jeremiah 7:1-11
Psalms 84:3-6,8,11
Matthew 13:24-30
Jeremiah 7:1-11
(1) The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, (2) “Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’” (3) Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. (4) Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’ (5) For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; (6) if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt; (7) then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more. (8) Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit. (9) Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, (10) then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered;’ that you may do all these abominations? (11) Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.
Psalms 84:3-6,8,11
(3) Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God. (4) Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah. (5) Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage. (6) Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings. (8) Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah. (11) For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Matthew 13:24-30
(24) He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, (25) but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away. (26) But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also. (27) The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’ (28) “He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’ (29) “But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. (30) Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
