Daily Readings - 11/03/2026

^147:1 Praise Yahweh – it is good to sing in honour of our God – sweet is his praise.

^147:2 Yahweh, Restorer of Jerusalem! He brought back Israel’s exiles,

^147:3 healing their broken hearts, and binding up their wounds.

^147:4 He decides the number of the stars and gives each of them a name;

^147:5 our Lord is great, all-powerful, of infinite understanding.

^147:6 Yahweh, who lifts up the humble, humbles the wicked to the ground.

^147:7 Sing to Yahweh in gratitude, play the lyre for our God:

^147:8 who covers the heavens with clouds, to provide the earth with rain, to produce fresh grass on the hillsides and the plants that are needed by man,

^147:9 who gives their food to the cattle and to the young ravens when they cry.

^147:10 The strength of the war horse means nothing to him, it is not infantry that interests him.

^147:11 Yahweh is interested only in those who fear him, in those who rely on his love.

^147:12 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem, Zion, praise your God:

^147:13 for strengthening the bars of your gates, for blessing your citizens,

^147:14 for granting you peace on your frontiers, for feeding you on the finest wheat.

^147:15 He gives an order; his word flashes to earth:

^147:16 to spread snow like a blanket, to strew hoarfrost like ashes,

^147:17 to drop ice like breadcrumbs, and when the cold is unbearable,

^147:18 he sends his word to bring the thaw and warm wind to melt the snow.

^147:19 He reveals his word to Jacob, his statutes and rulings to Israel:

^147:20 he never does this for other nations, he never reveals his rulings to them.

^5:17 ‘Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them.

^5:18 I tell you solemnly, till heaven and earth disappear, not one dot, not one little stroke, shall disappear from the Law until its purpose is achieved.

^5:19 Therefore, the man who infringes even one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be considered the least in the kingdom of heaven; but the man who keeps them and teaches them will be considered great in the kingdom of heaven.