Daily Readings - 17/02/2026

^1:12 Happy the man who stands firm[*d] when trials come. He has proved himself, and will win the prize of life, the crown that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

^1:13 Never, when you have been tempted, say, ‘God sent the temptation’; God cannot be tempted to do anything wrong, and he does not tempt anybody.

^1:14 Everyone who is tempted is attracted and seduced by his own wrong desire.

^1:15 Then the desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it too has a child, and the child is death.

^1:16 Make no mistake about this, my dear brothers:

^1:17 it is all that is good, everything that is perfect, which is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all light; with him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow of a change.

^1:18 By his own choice he made us his children by the message of the truth so that we should be a sort of first-fruits of all that he had created.

^94:1 The justice of God Yahweh, God of revenge, God of revenge, appear!

^94:2 Rise, judge of the world, give the proud their deserts!

^94:3 Yahweh, how much longer are the wicked, how much longer are the wicked to triumph?

^94:4 Are these evil men to remain unsilenced, boasting and asserting themselves?

^94:5 Yahweh, they crush your people, they oppress your hereditary people,

^94:6 murdering and massacring widows, orphans and guests.

^94:7 ‘Yahweh sees nothing,’ they say ‘the God of Jacob takes no notice.’

^94:8 You most stupid of men, you fools, think this over and learn some sense.

^94:9 Is the inventor of the ear unable to hear? The creator of the eye unable to see?

^94:10 The punisher of the pagans unable to punish? Yahweh the teacher of mankind

^94:11 knows exactly how men think, how their thoughts are a puff of wind.

^94:12 Yahweh, happy the man whom you instruct, the man whom you teach through your law;

^94:13 his mind is at peace though times are bad, while a pit is being dug for the wicked.

^94:14 For Yahweh has not abandoned or deserted his hereditary people;

^94:15 for verdict will return to righteousness again, and, in its wake, all upright hearts.

^94:16 No one ever stood up for me against the wicked, not a soul took a stand to save me from evil men;

^94:17 without Yahweh’s help, I should, long ago, have gone to the Home of Silence.

^94:18 I need only say, ‘I am slipping’, and your love, Yahweh, immediately supports me;

^94:19 and in the middle of all my troubles you console me and make me happy.

^94:20 You never consent to that corrupt tribunal that imposes disorder as law,

^94:21 that takes the life of the virtuous and condemns the innocent to death.

^94:22 No! Yahweh is still my citadel, my God is a rock where I take shelter;

^94:23 he will pay them back for all their sins, he will silence their wickedness, Yahweh our God will silence them.

^8:14 The disciples had forgotten to take any food and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.

^8:15 Then he gave them this warning, ‘Keep your eyes open; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod’.

^8:16 And they said to one another, ‘It is because we have no bread’.

^8:17 And Jesus knew it, and he said to them, ‘Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you not yet understand? Have you no perception? Are your minds closed?

^8:18 Have you eyes that do not see, ears that do not hear?[*a] Or do you not remember?

^8:19 When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of scraps did you collect?’ They answered, ‘Twelve’.

^8:20 And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of scraps did you collect?’ And they answered, ‘Seven’.

^8:21 Then he said to them, ‘Are you still without perception?’