Daily Readings - 12/03/2026

^7:23 These were my orders: Listen to my voice, then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Follow right to the end the way that I mark out for you, and you will prosper.

^7:24 But they did not listen, they did not pay attention; they followed the dictates of their own evil hearts, refused to face me, and turned their backs on me.

^7:25 From the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until today, day after day I have persistently sent you all my servants the prophets.

^7:26 But they have not listened to me, have not paid attention; they have grown stubborn and behaved worse than their ancestors.

^7:27 You may say all these words to them: they will not listen to you; you may call them: they will not answer.

^7:28 So tell them this, “Here is the nation that will not listen to the voice of Yahweh its God nor take correction. Sincerity is no more, it has vanished from their mouths.

^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.

^11:14 He was casting out a devil and it was dumb; but when the devil had gone out the dumb man spoke, and the people were amazed.

^11:15 But some of them said, ‘It is through Beelzebul, the prince of devils, that he casts out devils’.

^11:16 Others asked him, as a test, for a sign from heaven;

^11:17 but, knowing what they were thinking, he said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is heading for ruin, and a household divided against itself collapses.

^11:18 So too with Satan: if he is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? – Since you assert that it is through Beelzebul that I cast out devils.

^11:19 Now if it is through Beelzebul that I cast out devils, through whom do your own experts cast them out? Let them be your judges then.

^11:20 But if it is through the finger of God that I cast out devils, then know that the kingdom of God has overtaken you.

^11:21 So long as a strong man fully armed guards his own palace, his goods are undisturbed;

^11:22 but when someone stronger than he is attacks and defeats him, the stronger man takes away all the weapons he relied on and shares out his spoil.

^11:23 ‘He who is not with me is against me; and he who does not gather with me scatters.