Daily Readings - 22/06/2026

^17:5 The king of Assyria invaded the whole country and, coming to Samaria, laid siege to it for three years.

^17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah on the Habor, a river of Gozan,[*a] and in the cities of the Medes.[*b]

^17:7 This happened because the Israelites had sinned against Yahweh their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the grip of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshipped other gods,

^17:8 they followed the practices of the nations that Yahweh had dispossessed for them.

^17:13 And yet through all the prophets and all the seers, Yahweh had given Israel and Judah this warning, ‘Turn from your wicked ways and keep my commandments and my laws in accordance with the entire Law I laid down for your fathers and delivered to them through my servants the prophets’.

^17:14 But they would not listen, they were more stubborn than their ancestors had been who had no faith in Yahweh their God.

^17:15 They despised his laws and the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the warnings he had given them. They pursued emptiness, and themselves became empty through copying the nations round them although Yahweh had ordered them not to act as they did.

^17:18 For this, Yahweh was enraged with Israel and thrust them away from him. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

^60:1 God, you have rejected us, broken us; you have been angry, come back to us!

^60:2 You have made the earth tremble, torn it apart; now mend the rifts, it is tottering still!

^60:3 You have allowed your people to suffer, to drink a wine that makes us reel.

^60:4 Hoist the standard to rally those who fear you, to put them out of range of bow and arrow. (Pause)

^60:5 To bring rescue to those you love, save with your right hand and answer us!

^60:6 God promised us once from his sanctuary, ‘I the Victor will parcel out Shechem, and share out the Valley of Succoth.

^60:7 ‘Gilead is mine, Manasseh mine, Ephraim is my helmet, Judah, my marshal’s baton.

^60:8 Moab a bowl for me to wash in! I throw my sandal[*a] over Edom. Now shout “Victory”, Philistia!'[*b]

^60:9 Who is there now to take me into the fortified city, to lead me into Edom?

^60:10 God, can you really have rejected us? You no longer march with our armies.

^60:11 Help us in this hour of crisis, the help that man can give is worthless.

^60:12 With God among us we shall fight like heroes, he will trample on our enemies.

^7:1 ‘Do not judge, and you will not be judged;

^7:2 because the judgements you give are the judgements you will get, and the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given.

^7:3 Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own?

^7:4 How dare you say to your brother, “Let me take the splinter out of your eye”, when all the time there is a plank in your own?

^7:5 Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take the splinter out of your brother’s eye.