Daily Readings - 13/02/2026

^11:29 One day when Jeroboam had gone out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah of Shiloh accosted him on the road. Ahijah was wearing a new cloak; the two of them were in the open country by themselves.

^11:30 Ahijah took the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve strips,

^11:31 saying to Jeroboam, ‘Take ten strips for yourself, for thus Yahweh speaks, the God of Israel, “I am going to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and give ten tribes to you.

^11:32 He shall keep one tribe[*b] for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel;

^12:19 And Israel has been separated from the House of David until the present day.

^80:1 Shepherd of Israel, listen, you who lead Joseph like a flock; enthroned on the cherubs, shine

^80:2 on Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh;[*a] rouse your strength, come to us and save us!

^80:3 Yahweh Sabaoth, bring us back, let your face smile on us and we shall be safe.

^80:4 Yahweh Sabaoth, how much longer will you smoulder at your people’s prayer?

^80:5 Having fed us on the bread of tears, having made us drink them in such measure,

^80:6 you now let our neighbours quarrel over us and our enemies deride us.

^80:7 Yahweh Sabaoth, bring us back, let your face smile on us and we shall be safe.

^80:8 There was a vine: you uprooted it from Egypt; to plant it, you drove out other nations,

^80:9 you cleared a space where it could grow, it took root and filled the whole country.

^80:10 It covered the mountains with its shade, the cedars of God with its branches,

^80:11 its tendrils extended to the sea, its offshoots all the way to the river.[*b]

^80:12 Why have you destroyed its fences? Now anyone can go and steal its grapes,

^80:13 the forest boar can ravage it and wild animals eat it.

^80:14 Please, Yahweh Sabaoth, relent! Look down from heaven, look at this vine, visit it,

^80:15 protect what your own right hand has planted.

^80:16 They threw it on the fire like dung, but one look of reproof from you and they will be doomed.

^80:17 May your hand protect the man at your right, the son of man who has been authorised by you.

^80:18 We shall never turn from you again; our life renewed, we shall invoke your name.

^80:19 Yahweh Sabaoth, bring us back, let your face smile on us and we shall be safe.

^7:31 Returning from the district of Tyre, he went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region.

^7:32 And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on him.

^7:33 He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, put his fingers into the man’s ears and touched his tongue with spittle.

^7:34 Then looking up to heaven he sighed; and he said to him, ‘Ephphatha’, that is, ‘Be opened’.

^7:35 And his ears were opened, and the ligament of his tongue was loosened and he spoke clearly.

^7:36 And Jesus ordered them to tell no one about it, but the more he insisted, the more widely they published it.

^7:37 Their admiration was unbounded. ‘He has done all things well,’ they said ‘he makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.’