Daily Readings - 22/01/2026

^56:1 Take pity on me, God, as they harry me, pressing their attacks home all day.

^56:2 All day my opponents harry me, hordes coming in to the attack. Raise me up

^56:3 when I am most afraid, I put my trust in you;

^56:4 in God, whose word[*a] I praise, in God I put my trust, fearing nothing; what can men do to me?

^56:5 All day long they twist what I say, all they think of is how to harm me,

^56:6 they conspire, lurk, spy on my movements, determined to take my life.

^56:7 Are they to go unpunished for such a crime? God, in fury bring the nations down!

^56:8 You have noted my agitation, now collect my tears in your wineskin!

^56:9 Then my enemies will have to fall back as soon as I call for help. This I know: that God is on my side.

^56:10 In God whose word I praise, in Yahweh, whose word I praise,

^56:11 in God I put my trust, fearing nothing; what can man do to me?

^56:12 I must fulfil the vows I made you, God; I shall pay you my thank-offerings,

^56:13 for you have rescued me from Death to walk in the presence of God in the light of the living.

^3:7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lakeside, and great crowds from Galilee followed him. From Judaea,

^3:8 Jerusalem, Idumaea, Transjordania and the region of Tyre and Sidon, great numbers who had heard of all he was doing came to him.

^3:9 And he asked his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, to keep him from being crushed.

^3:10 For he had cured so many that all who were afflicted in any way were crowding forward to touch him.

^3:11 And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, would fall down before him and shout, ‘You are the Son of God!’

^3:12 But he warned them strongly not to make him known.