Friday of the 3rd week of Advent

2Gather together and listen, O sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.

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8Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be at the necks of your enemies; the sons of your father will reverence you. 9Judah is a lion’s young. You have gone up to the prey, my son. While resting, you have lain like a lion. And just like a lioness, who would rouse him? 10The scepter from Judah and the leader from his thigh will not be taken away, until he who will be sent arrives, and he will be the expectation of Gentiles.

1A Psalm according to Solomon.

2Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.

3Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice.

4He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.

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7In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away.

8And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world.

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17May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him.

1The book of the lineage of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2Abraham conceived Isaac. And Isaac conceived Jacob. And Jacob conceived Judah and his brothers. 3And Judah conceived Perez and Zerah by Tamar. And Perez conceived Hezron. And Hezron conceived Ram. 4And Ram conceived Amminadab. And Amminadab conceived Nahshon. And Nahshon conceived Salmon. 5And Salmon conceived Boaz by Rahab. And Boaz conceived Obed by Ruth. And Obed conceived Jesse. 6And Jesse conceived king David. And king David conceived Solomon, by her who had been the wife of Uriah. 7And Solomon conceived Rehoboam. And Rehoboam conceived Abijah. And Abijah conceived Asa. 8And Asa conceived Jehoshaphat. And Jehoshaphat conceived Joram. And Joram conceived Uzziah. 9And Uzziah conceived Jotham. And Jotham conceived Ahaz. And Ahaz conceived Hezekiah. 10And Hezekiah conceived Manasseh. And Manasseh conceived Amos. And Amos conceived Josiah. 11And Josiah conceived Jechoniah and his brothers in the transmigration of Babylon. 12And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechoniah conceived Shealtiel. And Shealtiel conceived Zerubbabel. 13And Zerubbabel conceived Abiud. And Abiud conceived Eliakim. And Eliakim conceived Azor. 14And Azor conceived Zadok. And Zadok conceived Achim. And Achim conceived Eliud. 15And Eliud conceived Eleazar. And Eleazar conceived Matthan. And Matthan conceived Jacob. 16And Jacob conceived Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. 17And so, all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the transmigration of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the transmigration of Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.