Daily Readings - 04/08/2026

^30:1 The word addressed to Jeremiah by Yahweh:

^30:2 Yahweh, the God of Israel says this: Write all the words I have spoken to you in a book.

^30:12 Yes, Yahweh says this: Your wound is incurable, your injury past healing.

^30:13 There is no one to care for your sore, no medicine to make you well again.

^30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you, they look for you no more. Yes, I have struck you as an enemy strikes, with harsh punishment (so great is your guilt, so many your sins).

^30:15 Why bother to complain about your wound? Your pain is incurable. So great is your guilt, so many your sins, that I have done all this to you.

^30:18 Yahweh says this: Now I will restore the tents of Jacob, and take pity on his dwellings: the city shall be rebuilt on its ruins, the citadel restored on its site.

^30:19 From them will come thanksgiving and shouts of joy. I will make them increase, and not diminish them, make them honoured, and not disdained.

^30:20 Their sons shall be as once they were, their community fixed firm in my presence, and I will punish all their oppressors.

^30:21 Their prince will be one of their own, their ruler come from their own people. I will let him come freely into my presence and he can come close to me; who else, indeed, would risk his life by coming close to me? – it is Yahweh who speaks.

^30:22 And you shall be my people and I will be your God.

^101:1 My song is about kindness and justice; Yahweh, I sing it to you.

^101:2 I mean to make good progress, as the blameless do: when will you come to me? In my household, I will advance in purity of heart;

^101:3 I will not let my eyes rest on any misconduct. I hate the practices of the apostate, they have no appeal for me;

^101:4 perverted hearts must keep their distance, the wicked I disregard.

^101:5 The man who secretly slanders his neighbour I reduce to silence; haughty looks, proud heart, I cannot tolerate these.

^101:6 I look to my religious countrymen to compose my household; only the man who makes progress, as the blameless do, can be my servant.

^101:7 There is no room in my house for any hypocrite; no liar keeps his post where I can see him.

^101:8 Morning after morning[*a] I reduce to silence all who are wicked in this country, banishing from the city of Yahweh all evil men.

^15:1 Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem then came to Jesus and said,

^15:2 ‘Why do your disciples break away from the tradition of the elders?[*a] They do not wash their hands when they eat food.’

^15:10 He called the people to him and said, ‘Listen, and understand.

^15:11 What goes into the mouth does not make a man unclean; it is what comes out of the mouth that makes him unclean.’

^15:12 Then the disciples came to him and said, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked when they heard what you said?’

^15:13 He replied, ‘Any plant my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

^15:14 Leave them alone. They are blind men leading blind men; and if one blind man leads another, both will fall into a pit.’