Psalm 77:1–3, 7–12, 15

¹I cry aloud to God,
aloud to God, and he will hear me.
²In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;
in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying;
my soul refuses to be comforted.
³When I remember God, I moan;
when I meditate, my spirit faints.

⁷“Will the Lord spurn forever,
and never again be favorable?
⁸Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
Are his promises at an end for all time?
⁹Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he in anger shut up his compassion?”
¹⁰Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
¹¹I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
yes, I will remember your wonders of old.
¹²I will ponder all your work,
and meditate on your mighty deeds.

¹⁵You with your arm redeemed your people,
the children of Jacob and Joseph.

Old Testament Reading Job 3:11–26

¹¹“Why did I not die at birth,
come out from the womb and expire?
¹²Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
¹³For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
¹⁴with kings and counselors of the earth
who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
¹⁵or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
¹⁶Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?
¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary are at rest.
¹⁸There the prisoners are at ease together;
they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
¹⁹The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his master.
²⁰“Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to the bitter in soul,
²¹who long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
²²who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?
²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?
²⁴For my sighing comes instead of my bread,
and my groanings are poured out like water.
²⁵For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
and what I dread befalls me.
²⁶I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest, but trouble comes.”

New Testament Reading John 1:35–51

³⁵The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, ³⁶and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” ³⁷The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. ³⁸Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” ³⁹He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. ⁴⁰One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. ⁴¹He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ). ⁴²He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).

⁴³The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” ⁴⁶Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!” ⁴⁸Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” ⁴⁹Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” ⁵⁰Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” ⁵¹And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”