Daily Readings - 02/06/2026

^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.

^12:13 Next they sent to him some Pharisees and some Herodians to catch him out in what he said.

^12:14 These came and said to him, ‘Master, we know you are an honest man, that you are not afraid of anyone, because a man’s rank means nothing to you, and that you teach the way of God in all honesty. Is it permissible to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay, yes or no?’

^12:15 Seeing through their hypocrisy he said to them, ‘Why do you set this trap for me? Hand me a denarius and let me see it.’

^12:16 They handed him one and he said, ‘Whose head is this? Whose name?’ ‘Caesar’s’ they told him.

^12:17 Jesus said to them, ‘Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar – and to God what belongs to God’. This reply took them completely by surprise.