Daily Readings - 01/06/2026

^91:1 If you live in the shelter of Elyon[*a] and make your home in the shadow of Shaddai,

^91:2 you can say to Yahweh, ‘My refuge, my fortress, my God to whom I trust!’

^91:3 He rescues you from the snares of fowlers hoping to destroy you;

^91:5 You need not fear the terrors of night, the arrow that flies in the daytime,

^91:6 the plague that stalks in the dark, the scourge that wreaks havoc in broad daylight.

^91:7 Though a thousand fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, you yourself will remain unscathed,

^91:8 You have only to look around see how the wicked are repaid,

^91:9 you who can say, ‘Yahweh my refuge’, and make Elyon your fortress.

^91:10 No disaster can overtake you, no plague come near your tent:

^91:11 he will put you in his angels’ charge to guard you wherever you go.

^91:12 They will support you on their hands in case you hurt your foot against a stone;

^91:13 you will tread on lion and adder, trample on savage lions and dragons.

^91:14 ‘I rescue all who cling to me, I protect whoever knows my name,

^91:15 I answer everyone who invokes me, I am with them when they are in trouble; I bring them safety and honour.

^91:16 I give them life, long and full, and show them how I can save.’

^12:1 He went on to speak to them in parables, ‘A man planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug out a trough for the winepress and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad.

^12:2 When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce from the vineyard.

^12:3 But they seized the man, thrashed him and sent him away empty-handed.

^12:4 Next he sent another servant to them; him they beat about the head and treated shamefully.

^12:5 And he sent another and him they killed; then a number of others, and they thrashed some and killed the rest.

^12:6 He had still someone left: his beloved son. He sent him to them last of all. “They will respect my son” he said.

^12:7 But those tenants said to each other, “This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.”

^12:8 So they seized him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.

^12:9 Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and make an end of the tenants and give the vineyard to others.

^12:10 Have you not read this text of scripture: It was the stone rejected by the builders that became the keystone.

^12:11 This was the Lord’s doing and it is wonderful to see?[*a]

^12:12 And they would have liked to arrest him, because they realised that the parable was aimed at them, but they were afraid of the crowds. So they left him alone and went away.