Daily Readings - 10/07/2026

^14:2 Israel, come back to Yahweh your God; your iniquity was the cause of your downfall.

^14:3 Provide yourself with words and come back to Yahweh. Say to him, ‘Take all iniquity away so that we may have happiness again and offer you our words of praise.

^14:4 Assyria cannot save us, we will not ride horses any more[*a], or say, “Our God!” to what our own hands have made, for you are the one in whom orphans find compassion.

^14:5 -I will heal their disloyalty, I will love them with all my heart, for my anger has turned from them.

^14:6 I will fall like dew on Israel. He shall bloom like the lily, and thrust out roots like the poplar,

^14:7 his shoots will spread far; he will have the beauty of the olive and the fragrance of Lebanon.

^14:8 They will come back to live in my shade; they will grow corn that flourishes, they will cultivate vines as renowned as the wine of Helbon.

^14:9 What has Ephraim to do with idols any more when it is I who hear his prayer and care for him? I am like a cypress ever green, all your fruitfulness comes from me.

^14:10 Let the wise man understand these words. Let the intelligent man grasp their meaning. For the ways of Yahweh are straight, and virtuous men walk in them, but sinners stumble.

^50:1 Yahweh, God of gods, speaks, he summons the earth. From east to west,

^50:2 from Zion, perfection of beauty, he shines.

^50:3 Let our God come, and be silent no more! Preceding him, a devouring fire, round him, a raging storm;

^50:4 he summons the heavens above and the earth, to his people’s trial:

^50:5 ‘Assemble my faithful before me who sealed my covenant by sacrifice!’

^50:6 Let the heavens proclaim his righteousness when God himself is judge! (Pause)

^50:8 ‘I am not finding fault with your sacrifices, those holocausts constantly before me;

^50:9 I do not claim one extra bull from your homes, nor one extra goat from your pens,

^50:10 ‘since all the forest animals are already mine, and the cattle on my mountains in their thousands;

^50:11 I know all the birds of the air, nothing moves in the field that does not belong to me.

^50:12 ‘If I were hungry, I should not tell you, since the world and all it holds is mine.

^50:13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink goats’ blood?

^50:14 ‘No, let thanksgiving be your sacrifice to God, fulfil the vows you make to the Most High;

^50:15 then you can invoke me in your troubles and I will rescue you, and you shall honour me.’

^50:16 But to the wicked man God says: ‘What business have you reciting my statutes, standing there mouthing my covenant,

^50:17 since you detest my discipline and thrust my words behind you?

^50:18 ‘You make friends with a thief as soon as you see one, you feel at home with adulterers,

^50:19 your mouth is given freely to evil and your tongue to inventing lies.

^50:20 ‘You sit there, slandering your own brother, you malign your own mother’s son.

^50:21 You do this, and expect me to say nothing?

^50:22 ‘You are leaving God out of account; take care! Or I will tear you to pieces where no one can rescue you!

^50:23 Whoever makes thanksgiving his sacrifice honours me; to the upright man I will show how God can save.’

^10:16 Remember, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be cunning as serpents and yet as harmless as doves.

^10:17 ‘Beware of men: they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues.

^10:18 You will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the pagans.

^10:19 But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes;

^10:20 because it is not you who will be speaking; the Spirit of your Father will be speaking in you.

^10:21 ‘Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

^10:22 You will be hated by all men on account of my name; but the man who stands firm to the end will be saved.

^10:23 If they persecute you in one town, take refuge in the next; and if they persecute you in that, take refuge in another. I tell you solemnly, you will not have gone the round of the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.