Daily Readings - 17/01/2026

^20:1 May Yahweh answer you in time of trouble, may the name of the God of Jacob protect you!

^20:2 May he send you help from the sanctuary, give you support from Zion,

^20:3 remember all your oblations and find your holocaust acceptable; (pause)

^20:4 may he grant you your heart’s desire, and crown all your plans with success;

^20:5 may we shout with joy for your victory, and plant our banners in the name of our God! May Yahweh grant all your petitions!

^20:6 Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed, and answers him from his holy heaven with mighty victories from his own right hand.

^20:7 Some boast of chariots, some of horses, but we boast about the name of Yahweh our God;

^20:8 theirs to crumple and fall, but we shall stand, and stand firm!

^20:9 Yahweh, save the king, answer us when we call.

^2:13 He went out again to the shore of the lake;[*a] and all the people came to him, and he taught them.

^2:14 As he was walking on he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus, sitting by the customs house, and he said to him, ‘Follow me’. And he got up and followed him.

^2:15 When Jesus was at dinner in his house, a number of tax collectors and sinners were also sitting at the table with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many of them among his followers.

^2:16 When the scribes of the Pharisee party saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, ‘Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?’

^2:17 When Jesus heard this he said to them, ‘It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. I did not come to call the virtuous, but sinners.’