Daily Readings - 12/01/2026

^116:1 I love! For Yahweh listens to my entreaty;

^116:2 he bends down to listen to me when I call.

^116:3 Death’s cords were tightening round me, the nooses of Sheol; distress and anguish gripped me,

^116:4 I invoked the name of Yahweh: ‘Yahweh, rescue me!’

^116:5 Yahweh is righteous and merciful, our God is tenderhearted;

^116:6 Yahweh defends the simple, he saved me when I was brought to my knees.

^116:7 Return to your resting place, my soul, Yahweh has treated you kindly.

^116:8 He has rescued (me from death) my eyes from tears and my feet from stumbling.

^116:9 (I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in the land of the living.)[*a]

^116:10 I have faith, even when I say, ‘I am completely crushed’.

^116:11 In my alarm, I declared, ‘No man can be relied on’.

^116:12 What return can I make to Yahweh for all his goodness to me?

^116:13 I will offer libations to my saviour, invoking the name of Yahweh.

^116:14 (I will pay what I vowed to Yahweh; may his whole nation be present!)

^116:15 The death of the devout costs Yahweh dear.

^116:16 Yahweh, I am your servant, your servant, son of a pious mother, you undo my fetters.

^116:17 I will offer you the thanksgiving sacrifice, invoking the name of Yahweh.

^116:9 I will walk in Yahweh’s presence in the land of the living.

^116:18 I will pay what I vowed to Yahweh; may his whole nation be present,

^116:19 in the courts of the house of Yahweh, in your heart, Jerusalem.

^1:14 After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God.

^1:15 ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.’

^1:16 As he was walking along by the Sea of Galilee he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net in the lake – for they were fishermen.

^1:17 And Jesus said to them, ‘Follow me and I will make you into fishers of men’.

^1:18 And at once they left their nets and followed him.

^1:19 Going on a little further, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John; they too were in their boat, mending their nets. He called them at once

^1:20 and, leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the men he employed, they went after him.