Daily Readings - 26/02/2026

^137:1 Beside the streams of Babylon we sat and wept at the memory of Zion,

^137:2 leaving our harps hanging on the poplars there.

^137:3 For we had been asked to sing to our captors, to entertain those who had carried us off: ‘Sing’ they said ‘some hymns of Zion’.

^137:4 How could we sing one of Yahweh’s hymns in a pagan country?

^137:5 Jerusalem, if I forget you, may my right hand wither!

^137:6 May I never speak again, if I forget you! If I do not count Jerusalem the greatest of my joys!

^137:7 Yahweh, remember what the Sons of Edom did on the day of Jerusalem,[*a] how they said, ‘Down with her! Raze her to the ground!’

^137:8 Destructive Daughter of Babel, a blessing on the man who treats you as you have treated us,

^137:9 a blessing on him who takes and dashes your babies against the rock!

^7:7 ‘Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

^7:8 For the one who asks always receives; the one who searches always finds; the one who knocks will always have the door opened to him.

^7:9 Is there a man among you who would hand his son a stone when he asked for bread?

^7:10 Or would hand him a snake when he asked for a fish?

^7:11 If you, then, who are evil, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

^7:12 ‘So always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.