Short Readings For Monday In The Sixth Week Of Lent.

            Thus says the LORD,

                        your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

            “I am the LORD your God,

                        who teaches you to profit,

                        who leads you in the way you should go.

            Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!

                        Then your peace would have been like a river,

                        and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

            your offspring would have been like the sand,

                        and your descendants like its grains;

            their name would never be cut off

                        or destroyed from before me.”

            “There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”

(Isaiah 48:17-19, 22 ESV)

            Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life;

                        he who despises his ways will die.

            Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD,

                        and he will repay him for his deed.

            Discipline your son, for there is hope;

                        do not set your heart on putting him to death.

            A man of great wrath will pay the penalty,

                        for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

            Listen to advice and accept instruction,

                        that you may gain wisdom in the future.

            Many are the plans in the mind of a man,

                        but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

            What is desired in a man is steadfast love,

                        and a poor man is better than a liar.

            The fear of the LORD leads to life,

                        and whoever has it rests satisfied;

                        he will not be visited by harm.

(Proverbs 19:16-23 ESV)