Daily Readings - 08/07/2026

^10:1 Israel was a luxuriant vine yielding plenty of fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; the richer his land became, the richer he made the sacred stones.

^10:2 Their heart is a divided heart; very well, they must pay for it: Yahweh is going to break their altars down and destroy their sacred stones.

^10:3 Then they will say, ‘We have no king because we have not feared Yahweh’. But what can a king do for us?

^10:7 Samaria has had her day. Her king[*a] is like a straw drifting on the water.

^10:8 The idolatrous high places shall be destroyed-that sin of Israel; thorn and thistle will grow on their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, ‘Cover us!’ and to the hills, ‘Fall on us!’

^10:12 Sow integrity for yourselves, reap a harvest of kindness, break up your fallow ground: it is time to go seeking Yahweh until he comes to rain salvation on you.

^105:1 Alleluia! Give thanks to Yahweh, call his name aloud, proclaim his deeds to the peoples!

^105:2 Sing to him, play to him, tell over all his marvels!

^105:3 Glory in his holy name, let the hearts that seek Yahweh rejoice!

^105:4 Seek Yahweh and his strength, seek his face untiringly;

^105:5 remember the marvels he has done, his wonders, the judgements from his mouth.

^105:6 Stock of Abraham his servant, sons of Jacob his chosen one!

^105:7 He is Yahweh our God, his authority is over all the earth.

^105:8 Remember his covenant for ever, his word of command for a thousand generations,

^105:9 the pact he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

^105:10 He established it as a statute for Jacob, an everlasting covenant for Israel.

^105:11 ‘I give you a land,’ he said ‘Canaan, your allotted heritage.

^105:12 There where you were easily counted, few in number, strangers to the country.’

^105:13 They went from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people;

^105:14 he let no man oppress them, he punished kings on their behalf.

^105:15 ‘Do not touch my anointed ones,’ he said ‘do not harm my prophets!’

^105:16 Next, he called down famine on the country, he broke their staff, that is, their bread;

^105:17 he sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, sold as a slave.

^105:18 They tortured his feet with fetters, they put his neck in irons;

^105:19 time passed, Joseph’s oracle came true, Yahweh’s word proved him right.

^105:20 The king gave orders to release him, that master of nations set him free,

^105:21 putting him in charge of his household, in control of all he possessed,

^105:22 to train his officials as he thought fit and convert his elders into sages.

^105:23 Israel then migrated to Egypt, Jacob settled in the land of Ham.

^105:24 He made his people fertile and more vigorous than their oppressors,

^105:25 whose hearts he then disposed to hatred of his people and double-dealing with his servants.

^105:26 He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, the man of his choice;

^105:27 there they displayed his signs, his wonders in the land of Ham.

^105:28 He sent darkness, darkness fell, but still they defied his word.

^105:29 He turned their rivers into blood, thus killing all their fish.

^105:30 Their country was overrun with frogs even in the royal apartments;

^105:31 he spoke: flies and mosquitoes swarmed throughout the country.

^105:32 He sent them hail instead of rain, fire swept across their land;

^105:33 he blasted their vines and fig trees, he shattered the trees throughout the country.

^105:34 He spoke: there came locusts, grasshoppers, more than you could count,

^105:35 eating every scrap of greenstuff, every blade their soil produced.

^105:36 Next, he struck down all the first-born in their land, the entire first-fruits of their fertility;

^105:37 then he led Israel out with gold and silver, and not one man of their tribes was left behind.

^105:38 Egypt was glad to see them go, they had filled her with alarm;

^105:39 he spread a cloud to cover them, and a fire to glow at night.

^105:40 They demanded food, he sent them quails, he satisfied them with the bread of heaven;

^105:41 he opened the rock, the waters gushed to flow through the desert like a river.

^105:42 Yes, faithful to the sacred promise given to his servant Abraham,

^105:43 he led his happy people forward, to joyful shouts from his chosen,

^105:44 and gave them the pagans’ territories. Where others had toiled, they took possession,

^105:45 on condition that they kept his statutes and remained obedient to his laws.

^10:1 He summoned his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to cast them out and to cure all kinds of diseases and sickness.

^10:2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

^10:3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

^10:4 Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, the one who was to betray him.

^10:5 These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them as follows: ‘Do not turn your steps to pagan territory, and do not enter any Samaritan town;

^10:6 go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.

^10:7 And as you go, proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.