Daily Readings - 03/03/2026

^1:10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the command of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

^1:16 Your hands are covered with blood, wash, make yourselves clean. Take your wrong-doing out of my sight. Cease to do evil.

^1:17 Learn to do good, search for justice, help the oppressed, be just to the orphan, plead for the widow.

^1:18 ‘Come now, let us talk this over, says Yahweh. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

^1:19 ‘If you are willing to obey, you shall eat the good things of the earth.

^1:20 But if you persist in rebellion, the sword shall eat you instead.’ The mouth of Yahweh has spoken.

^50:1 Yahweh, God of gods, speaks, he summons the earth. From east to west,

^50:2 from Zion, perfection of beauty, he shines.

^50:3 Let our God come, and be silent no more! Preceding him, a devouring fire, round him, a raging storm;

^50:4 he summons the heavens above and the earth, to his people’s trial:

^50:5 ‘Assemble my faithful before me who sealed my covenant by sacrifice!’

^50:6 Let the heavens proclaim his righteousness when God himself is judge! (Pause)

^50:8 ‘I am not finding fault with your sacrifices, those holocausts constantly before me;

^50:9 I do not claim one extra bull from your homes, nor one extra goat from your pens,

^50:10 ‘since all the forest animals are already mine, and the cattle on my mountains in their thousands;

^50:11 I know all the birds of the air, nothing moves in the field that does not belong to me.

^50:12 ‘If I were hungry, I should not tell you, since the world and all it holds is mine.

^50:13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink goats’ blood?

^50:14 ‘No, let thanksgiving be your sacrifice to God, fulfil the vows you make to the Most High;

^50:15 then you can invoke me in your troubles and I will rescue you, and you shall honour me.’

^50:16 But to the wicked man God says: ‘What business have you reciting my statutes, standing there mouthing my covenant,

^50:17 since you detest my discipline and thrust my words behind you?

^50:18 ‘You make friends with a thief as soon as you see one, you feel at home with adulterers,

^50:19 your mouth is given freely to evil and your tongue to inventing lies.

^50:20 ‘You sit there, slandering your own brother, you malign your own mother’s son.

^50:21 You do this, and expect me to say nothing?

^50:22 ‘You are leaving God out of account; take care! Or I will tear you to pieces where no one can rescue you!

^50:23 Whoever makes thanksgiving his sacrifice honours me; to the upright man I will show how God can save.’

^23:1 Then addressing the people and his disciples Jesus said,

^23:2 ‘The scribes and the Pharisees occupy the chair of Moses.

^23:3 You must therefore do what they tell you and listen to what they say; but do not be guided by what they do: since they do not practise what they preach.

^23:4 They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, but will they lift a finger to move them? Not they!

^23:5 Everything they do is done to attract attention, like wearing broader phylacteries and longer tassels[*a],

^23:6 like wanting to take the place of honour at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues,

^23:7 being greeted obsequiously in the market squares and having people call them Rabbi.

^23:8 ‘You, however, must not allow yourselves to be called Rabbi, since you have only one master, and you are all brothers.

^23:9 You must call no one on earth your father, since you have only one Father, and he is in heaven.

^23:10 Nor must you allow yourselves to be called teachers, for you have only one Teacher, the Christ.

^23:11 The greatest among you must be your servant.

^23:12 Anyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and anyone who humbles himself will exalted.