Daily Readings - 17/07/2026

^38:1 In those days Hezekiah fell ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, ‘Yahweh says this, “Put your affairs in order, for you are going to die, you will not live”‘.

^38:2 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and addressed this prayer to Yahweh,

^38:3 ‘Ah, Yahweh, remember, I beg you, how I have behaved faithfully and with sincerity of heart in your presence and done what is right in your eyes’. And Hezekiah shed many tears.

^38:4 Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah,

^38:5 ‘Go and say to Hezekiah, “Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor, says this: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will cure you: in three days’ time you shall go up to the Temple of Yahweh. I will add fifteen years to your life.

^38:6 I will save you from the hands of the king of Assyria, I will protect this city.”‘

^38:21 ‘Bring a fig poultice,’ Isaiah said ‘apply it to the ulcer and he will recover.’

^38:22 Hezekiah said, ‘What is the sign to tell me that I shall be going up to the Temple of Yahweh?’

^38:7 ‘Here’ Isaiah replied ‘is the sign from Yahweh that he will do what he has said.

^38:8 Look, I shall make the shadow cast by the declining sun go back ten steps on the steps of Ahaz.’ And the sun went back the ten steps by which it had declined.

^38:10 I said: In the noon of my life I have to depart for the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.

^38:11 I said: I shall never see Yahweh again in the land of the living, never again look on any man of those who inhabit the earth.

^38:12 My tent is pulled up, and thrown away like the tent of a shepherd; like a weaver you roll up my life to cut it from the loom. From dawn to night you are compassing my end,

^38:13 I cry aloud until the morning; like a lion he crushes all my bones, from dawn to night you are compassing my end.

^38:14 I am twittering like a swallow, I am moaning like a dove, my eyes turn to the heights, take care of me, be my safeguard.

^38:15 What can I say? Of what can I speak to him? It is he who is at work; I will give glory to you all the years of my life for my sufferings.

^38:16 Lord, my heart will live for you, my spirit will live for you alone. You will cure me and give me life,

^12:1 At that time Jesus took a walk one sabbath day through the cornfields. His disciples were hungry and began to pick ears of corn and eat them.

^12:2 The Pharisees noticed it and said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath’.

^12:3 But he said to them, ‘Have you not read what David did when he and his followers were hungry –

^12:4 how he went into the house of God and how they ate the loaves of offering which neither he nor his followers were allowed to eat, but which were for the priests alone?

^12:5 Or again, have you not read in the Law that on the sabbath day the Temple priests break the sabbath without being blamed for it?

^12:6 Now here, I tell you, is something greater than the Temple.

^12:7 And if you had understood the meaning of the words: What I want is mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the blameless.

^12:8 For the Son of Man is master of the sabbath.’