Daily Readings - 15/07/2026

^10:5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger, the club brandished by me in my fury!

^10:6 I sent him against a godless nation; I gave him commission against a people that provokes me, to pillage and to plunder freely and to stamp down like the mud in the streets.

^10:7 But he did not intend this, his heart did not plan it so. No, in his heart was to destroy, to go on cutting nations to pieces without limit.

^10:13 For he has said: ‘By the strength of my own arm I have done this and by my own intelligence, for understanding is mine; I have pushed back the frontiers of peoples and plundered their treasures. I have brought their inhabitants down to the dust.

^10:14 As if they were a bird’s nest, my hand has seized the riches of the peoples. As people pick up deserted eggs I have picked up the whole earth, with not a wing fluttering, not a beak opening, not a chirp.’

^10:15 Does the axe claim more credit than the man who wields it, or the saw more strength than the man who handles it? It would be like the cudgel controlling the man who raises it, or the club moving what is not made of wood!

^10:16 And so Yahweh Sabaoth is going to send a wasting sickness on his stout warriors; beneath his plenty, a burning will burn like a consuming fire.

^94:1 The justice of God Yahweh, God of revenge, God of revenge, appear!

^94:2 Rise, judge of the world, give the proud their deserts!

^94:3 Yahweh, how much longer are the wicked, how much longer are the wicked to triumph?

^94:4 Are these evil men to remain unsilenced, boasting and asserting themselves?

^94:5 Yahweh, they crush your people, they oppress your hereditary people,

^94:6 murdering and massacring widows, orphans and guests.

^94:7 ‘Yahweh sees nothing,’ they say ‘the God of Jacob takes no notice.’

^94:8 You most stupid of men, you fools, think this over and learn some sense.

^94:9 Is the inventor of the ear unable to hear? The creator of the eye unable to see?

^94:10 The punisher of the pagans unable to punish? Yahweh the teacher of mankind

^94:11 knows exactly how men think, how their thoughts are a puff of wind.

^94:12 Yahweh, happy the man whom you instruct, the man whom you teach through your law;

^94:13 his mind is at peace though times are bad, while a pit is being dug for the wicked.

^94:14 For Yahweh has not abandoned or deserted his hereditary people;

^94:15 for verdict will return to righteousness again, and, in its wake, all upright hearts.

^94:16 No one ever stood up for me against the wicked, not a soul took a stand to save me from evil men;

^94:17 without Yahweh’s help, I should, long ago, have gone to the Home of Silence.

^94:18 I need only say, ‘I am slipping’, and your love, Yahweh, immediately supports me;

^94:19 and in the middle of all my troubles you console me and make me happy.

^94:20 You never consent to that corrupt tribunal that imposes disorder as law,

^94:21 that takes the life of the virtuous and condemns the innocent to death.

^94:22 No! Yahweh is still my citadel, my God is a rock where I take shelter;

^94:23 he will pay them back for all their sins, he will silence their wickedness, Yahweh our God will silence them.

^11:25 At that time Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children.

^11:26 Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do.

^11:27 Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.