Daily Readings - 17/01/2026

^21:1 Yahweh, the king rejoices in your power; what great joy your saving help gives him!

^21:2 You have granted him his heart’s desire, not denied him what his lips entreated. (pause)

^21:3 For you have met him with choicest blessings, put a crown of pure gold on his head;

^21:4 he asked for life, and you gave it him, length of days for ever and ever.

^21:5 Great his glory through your saving help, you have loaded him with splendour and majesty;

^21:6 yes, you confer on him everlasting blessings, you gladden him with the joy of your presence.

^21:7 Yes, the king puts his trust in Yahweh, by grace of the Most High he reigns unshaken.

^21:8 Your hand will unmask all your enemies, your right hand all who hate you;

^21:9 you will make them like a blazing furnace, the day that you appear, Yahweh will engulf them in his anger, and fire will devour them;

^21:10 you will wipe their children from the earth, their descendants from among the sons of men.

^21:11 Plot though they do to harm you and weave their plan as they may, they cannot win;

^21:12 since you will make them turntail, by shooting your arrows in their faces.

^21:13 Rise, Yahweh, in your power! We will sing and play in honour of your strength.

^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.’