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.’

^58:1 Gods[*a] you may be, but do you give the sentences you should, and dispense impartial justice to mankind?

^58:2 On the contrary, in your hearts you meditate oppression, with your hands you dole out tyranny on earth.

^58:3 Right from the womb these wicked men have gone astray, these double talkers have been in error since their birth;

^58:4 their poison is the poison of the snake, they are deaf as the adder that blocks its ears

^58:5 so as not to hear the magician’s music and the clever snakecharmer’s spells.

^58:6 God, break their teeth in their mouths, Yahweh, wrench out the fangs of these savage lions!

^58:7 May they drain away like water running to waste, may they wither like trodden grass,

^58:8 like a slug that melts as it moves, like an abortion, denied the light of day!

^58:9 Before they sprout thorns like the bramble, green or scorched, may the wrath whirl them away!

^58:10 What joy for the virtuous, seeing this vengeance, bathing their feet in the blood of the wicked!

^58:11 ‘So’ people will say ‘the virtuous do have their harvest; so there is a God who dispenses justice on earth!’

^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.’