Old Testament: Exodus 33:12-23

¹²Moses said to the Lord, “See, you have said to me, ‘Bring up this people’; but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ ¹³Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your ways, so that I may know you and find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.” ¹⁴He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” ¹⁵And he said to him, “If your presence will not go, do not carry us up from here. ¹⁶For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people, unless you go with us? In this way, we shall be distinct, I and your people, from every people on the face of the earth.” ¹⁷The Lord said to Moses, “I will do the very thing that you have asked; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.” ¹⁸Moses said, “Show me your glory, I pray.” ¹⁹And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you the name, ‘The Lord’; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. ²⁰But,” he said, “you cannot see my face; for no one shall see me and live.” ²¹And the Lord continued, “See, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock; ²²and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; ²³then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

Psalm: Psalm 99

¹ The Lord is King;
  let the people tremble; *
       he is enthroned upon the cherubim;
       let the earth shake.
² The Lord is great in Zion; *
       he is high above all peoples.
³ Let them confess his Name, which is great and awesome; *
       he is the Holy One.
⁴ “O mighty King, lover of justice,
  you have established equity; *
       you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.”
⁵ Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God
  and fall down before his footstool; *
       he is the Holy One.
⁶ Moses and Aaron among his priests,
  and Samuel among those who call upon his Name, *
       they called upon the Lord, and he answered them.
⁷ He spoke to them out of the pillar of cloud; *
       they kept his testimonies and the decree that he gave them.
⁸ O Lord our God, you answered them indeed; *
       you were a God who forgave them,
       yet punished them for their evil deeds.
⁹ Proclaim the greatness of the Lord our God
  and worship him upon his holy hill; *
       for the Lord our God is the Holy One.

Old Testament: Isaiah 45:1-7

¹Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their robes, to open doors before him— and the gates shall not be closed: ²I will go before you and level the mountains, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron, ³I will give you the treasures of darkness and riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.⁴For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I surname you, though you do not know me.

⁵I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides me there is no god. I arm you, though you do not know me, ⁶so that they may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is no one besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other. ⁷I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe; I the Lord do all these things.

Psalm: Psalm 96:1-9, (10-13)

¹ Sing to the Lord a new song; *
       sing to the Lord, all the whole earth.
² Sing to the Lord and bless his Name; *
       proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day.
³ Declare his glory among the nations *
       and his wonders among all peoples.
⁴ For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; *
       he is more to be feared than all gods.
⁵ As for all the gods of the nations, they are but idols; *
       but it is the Lord who made the heavens.
⁶ Oh, the majesty and magnificence of his presence! *
       Oh, the power and the splendor of his sanctuary!
⁷ Ascribe to the Lord, you families of the peoples; *
       ascribe to the Lord honor and power.
⁸ Ascribe to the Lord the honor due his Name; *
       bring offerings and come into his courts.
⁹ Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; *
       let the whole earth tremble before him.
¹⁰ [Tell it out among the nations: “The Lord is King! *
       he has made the world so firm that it cannot be moved;
       he will judge the peoples with equity.”
¹¹ Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
   let the sea thunder and all that is in it; *
       let the field be joyful and all that is therein.
¹² Then shall all the trees of the wood shout for joy
   before the Lord when he comes, *
       when he comes to judge the earth.
¹³ He will judge the world with righteousness *
       and the peoples with his truth.]