Daily Readings - 14/07/2026

^7:1 In the reign of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Razon the king of Aram went up against Jerusalem with Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to lay siege to it; but he was unable to capture it.

^7:2 The news was brought to the House of David. ‘Aram’ they said ‘has reached Ephraim.’ Then the heart of the king and the hearts of the people shuddered as the trees of the forest shudder in front of the wind.

^7:3 Yahweh said to Isaiah, ‘Go with your son Shear-jashub,[*a] and meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the Fuller’s Field road,

^7:4 and say to him: “Pay attention, keep calm, have no fear, do not let your heart sink because of these two smouldering stumps of firebrands,[*b]

^7:5 or because Aram, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah have plotted to ruin you, and have said:

^7:6 Let us invade Judah and terrorise it and seize it for ourselves, and set up a king there, the son of Tabeel.

^7:7 The Lord Yahweh says this: It shall not come true; it shall not be.

^48:1 Yahweh is great and supremely to be praised in the city of our God, the holy mountain,

^48:2 beautiful where it rises, joy of the whole world; Mount of Zion, deep heart of the North, city of the Great King;

^48:3 here among her palaces, God proved to be her fortress.

^48:4 There was a rallying, once, of kings, advancing together along a common front;

^48:5 they looked, they were amazed, they panicked, they ran!

^48:6 There they shuddered and writhed like women in labour,

^48:7 it was the east wind, that wrecker of ships of Tarshish![*a]

^48:8 What we had heard we saw for ourselves in the city of our God, the city of Yahweh Sabaoth, God-protected for ever. (Pause)

^48:9 God, in your Temple we reflect on your love:

^48:10 God, your praise, like your name, reaches to the ends of the world. Your right hand holds the victory;

^48:11 Mount Zion rejoices, the daughters of Judah exult to have your rulings.

^48:12 Go through Zion, walk round her, counting her towers,

^48:13 admiring her walls, reviewing her palaces; then tell the next generation

^48:14 that God is here, our God and leader, for ever and ever.

^11:20 Then he began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been worked, because they refused to repent.

^11:21 ‘Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

^11:22 And still, I tell you that it will not go as hard on Judgement day with Tyre and Sidon as with you.

^11:23 And as for you, Capernaum, did you want to be exalted as high as heaven? You shall be thrown down to hell.[*e] For if the miracles done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been standing yet.

^11:24 And still, I tell you that it will not go as hard with the land of Sodom on Judgement day as with you.’