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.

^93:1 Yahweh is king, robed in majesty, Yahweh is robed in power, he wears it like a belt.

^93:2 You have made the world firm, unshakeable; your throne has stood since then, you existed from the first, Yahweh.

^93:3 Yahweh, the rivers raise, the rivers raise their voices, the rivers raise their thunders;

^93:4 greater than the voice of ocean, transcending the waves of the sea, Yahweh reigns transcendent in the heights.

^93:5 Your decrees will never alter; holiness will distinguish your house, Yahweh, for ever and ever.

^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.