Daily Readings - 29/07/2026

^15:10 Woe is me, my mother, for you have borne me to be a man of strife and of dissension for all the land. I neither lend nor borrow, yet all of them curse me.

^15:16 When your words came, I devoured them: your word was my delight and the joy of my heart; for I was called by your name, Yahweh, God of Sabaoth.

^15:17 I never took pleasure in sitting in scoffers’ company; with your hand on me I held myself aloof, since you had filled me with indignation.

^15:18 Why is my suffering continual, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Do you mean to be for me a deceptive stream with inconstant waters?

^15:19 To which Yahweh replied, ‘If you come back, I will take you back into my service; and if you utter noble, not despicable, thoughts, you shall be as my own mouth. They will come back to you, but you must not go back to them.

^15:20 I will make you a bronze wall fortified against this people. They will fight against you but they will not overcome you, because I am with you to save you and to deliver you – it is Yahweh who speaks.

^15:21 I mean to deliver you from the hands of the wicked and redeem you from the clutches of the violent.’

^59:1 Rescue me from my enemies, my God, protect me from those attacking me,

^59:2 rescue me from these evil men, save me from these murderers!

^59:3 Look at them lurking to ambush they are strong and united against me; for no fault, no sin,

^59:4 no offence of mine, Yahweh, how they hurry into position! Wake up, stand by me and look,

^59:5 Yahweh, God of Sabaoth, God of Israel, up, now, and punish these pagans, show no mercy to these villains and traitors! (pause)

^59:6 Back they come at nightfall, snarling like curs, prowling through the town.

^59:7 See how they slaver at the mouth, with swords between their teeth, ‘There is no one listening’.

^59:8 Yahweh, you laugh at them, you make fun of these pagans.

^59:9 My Strength, I look to you. My citadel is God himself,

^59:10 the God who loves me is coming, God will show me my enemies defeated.

^59:11 Slaughter them, God, before my people forget! Harry them with your power and strike them down, Lord, our shield!

^59:12 Sin is in their mouths, sin on their lips, so let them be caught in their pride! For the curses and lies they utter,

^59:13 destroy them in anger, destroy, until they are finished, until God is acknowledged as ruler in Jacob to the remotest parts of the earth! (pause)

^59:14 Back they come at nightfall, snarling like curs, prowling through the town;

^59:15 scavenging for food, growling till they are full.

^59:16 I, for my part, celebrate your strength, I sing of your love morning by morning; you have always been my citadel, a shelter when I am in trouble.

^59:17 My Strength, I play for you, my citadel is God himself, the God who loves me.

^11:19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to sympathise with them over their brother.

^11:20 When Martha heard that Jesus had come she went to meet him. Mary remained sitting in the house.

^11:21 Martha said to Jesus, ‘If you had been here, my brother would not have died,

^11:22 but I know that, even now, whatever you ask of God, he will grant you’.

^11:23 ‘Your brother’ said Jesus to her ‘will rise again.’

^11:24 Martha said, ‘1 know he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day’.

^11:25 Jesus said: ‘I am the resurrection. If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live,

^11:26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?’

^11:27 ‘Yes, Lord,’ she said ‘I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into this world.’