Daily Readings - 23/01/2026

^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.

^3:13 He now went up into the hills and summoned those he wanted. So they came to him

^3:14 and he appointed twelve; they were to be his companions and to be sent out to preach,

^3:15 with power to cast out devils.

^3:16 And so he appointed the Twelve: Simon to whom he gave the name Peter,

^3:17 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom he gave the name Boanerges or ‘Sons of Thunder’;

^3:18 then Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot

^3:19 and Judas Iscariot, the man who was to betray him.