Daily Readings - 27/05/2026

^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.

^10:32 They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem; Jesus was walking on ahead of them; they were in a daze, and those who followed were apprehensive. Once more taking the Twelve aside he began to tell them what was going to happen to him:

^10:33 ‘Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the pagans,

^10:34 who will mock him and spit at him and scourge him and put him to death; and after three days he will rise again.’

^10:35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him. ‘Master,’ they said to him ‘we want you to do us a favour.’

^10:36 He said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’

^10:37 They said to him, ‘Allow us to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory’.

^10:38 ‘You do not know what you are asking’ Jesus said to them. ‘Can you drink the cup that I must drink, or be baptised with the baptism with which I must be baptised?’

^10:39 They replied, ‘We can’. Jesus said to them, ‘The cup that I must drink you shall drink, and with the baptism with which I must be baptised you shall be baptised,

^10:40 but as for seats at my right hand or my left, these are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom they have been allotted’.

^10:41 When the other ten heard this they began to feel indignant with James and John,

^10:42 so Jesus called them to him and said to them, ‘You know that among the pagans their so-called rulers lord it over them, and their great men make their authority felt.

^10:43 This is not to happen among you. No; anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant,

^10:44 and anyone who wants to be first among you must be slave to all.

^10:45 For the Son of Man himself did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’