Daily Readings - 06/07/2026

^2:16 That is why I am going to lure her and lead her out into the wilderness and speak to her heart.

^2:17 I am going to give her back her vineyards, and make the Valley of Achor[*c] a gateway of hope.

^2:18 When that day comes – it is Yahweh who speaks – she will call me, ‘My husband’, no longer will she call me, ‘My Baal'[*d]

^2:21 I will betroth you to myself for ever, betroth you with integrity and justice, with tenderness and love;

^2:22 I will betroth you to myself with faithfulness, and you will come to know Yahweh.

^144:1 Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle,

^144:2 my love, my bastion, my citadel, my saviour, I shelter behind him, my shield, he makes the nations submit to me.

^144:3 Yahweh, what is man, that you should notice him? A human being, that you should think about him?

^144:4 Man’s life, a mere puff of wind, his days, as fugitive as shadows.

^144:5 Yahweh, lower your heavens, come down to us! Touch the mountains, make them smoke,

^144:6 flash your lightning – scatter them, shoot your arrows – rout them.

^144:7 Reach down your hand from above, save me, rescue me from deep waters, from the power of aliens

^144:8 who tell nothing but lies, who are prepared to swear to falsehood!

^144:9 God, I have made a new song for you to be played on the ten-string lyre,

^144:10 you who give victory to kings and safety to your servant David. From peril of sword

^144:11 save me, rescue me from the power of aliens who tell nothing but lies, who are prepared to swear to falsehood!

^144:12 May our sons be like plants growing strong from their earliest days, our daughters like corner-statues,[*a] carvings fit for a palace;

^144:13 may our barns overflow with every possible crop, may the sheep in our fields be counted in their thousands and tens of thousands,

^144:14 may our cattle be stout and strong; and may there be an end of raids and exile, and of panic in our streets.

^144:15 Happy the nation of whom this is true, happy the nation whose God is Yahweh!

^9:18 While he was speaking to them, up came one of the officials, who bowed low in front of him and said, ‘My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and her life will be saved’.

^9:19 Jesus rose and, with his disciples, followed him.

^9:20 Then from behind him came a woman, who had suffered from a haemorrhage for twelve years, and she touched the fringe of his cloak,

^9:21 for she said to herself, ‘If I can only touch his cloak I shall be well again’.

^9:22 Jesus turned round and saw her; and he said to her, ‘Courage, my daughter, your faith has restored you to health’. And from that moment the woman was well again.

^9:23 When Jesus reached the official’s house and saw the flute-players, with the crowd making a commotion[*g] he said,

^9:24 ‘Get out of here; the little girl is not dead, she is asleep’. And they laughed at him.

^9:25 But when the people had been turned out he went inside and took the little girl by the hand; and she stood up.

^9:26 And the news spread all round the countryside.