Daily Readings - 01/06/2026

^90:1 Lord, you have been our refuge age after age.

^90:2 Before the mountains were born, before the earth or the world came to birth, you were God from all eternity and for ever.

^90:3 You can turn man back into dust by saying, ‘Back to what you were, you sons of men!’

^90:4 To you, a thousand years are a single day, a yesterday now over, an hour of the night.

^90:5 You brush men away like waking dreams, they are like grass

^90:6 sprouting and flowering in the morning, withered and dry before dusk.

^90:7 We too are burnt up by your anger and terrified by your fury;

^90:8 having summoned up our sins you inspect our secrets by your own light.

^90:9 Our days dwindle under your wrath, our lives are over in a breath

^90:10 our life lasts for seventy years, eighty with good health, but they all add up to anxiety and trouble-over in a trice, and then we are gone.

^90:11 Who yet has felt the full force of your fury, or learnt to fear the violence of your rage?

^90:12 Teach us to count how few days we have and so gain wisdom of heart.

^90:13 Relent, Yahweh! How much longer do we have? Take pity on your servants!

^90:14 Let us wake in the morning filled with your love and sing and be happy all our days;

^90:15 make our future as happy as our past was sad, those years when you were punishing us.

^90:16 Let your servants see what you can do for them, let their children see your glory.

^90:17 May the sweetness of the Lord be on us! Make all we do succeed.

^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.