Daily Readings - 05/08/2026

^31:1 When that time comes – it is Yahweh who speaks – I will be the God of all the clans of Israel: they shall be my people.

^31:2 Yahweh says this: They have found pardon in the wilderness, those who have survived the sword. Israel is marching to his rest.

^31:3 Yahweh has appeared to him from afar: I have loved you with an everlasting love, so I am constant in my affection for you.

^31:4 I build you once more; you shall be rebuilt, virgin of Israel. Adorned once more, and with your tambourines, you will go out dancing gaily.

^31:5 You will plant vineyards once more on the mountains of Samaria (the planters have done their planting: they will gather the fruit).

^31:6 Yes, a day will come when the watchmen shout on the mountains of Ephraim, ‘Up! Let us go up to Zion, to Yahweh our God!’

^31:7 For Yahweh says this: Shout with joy for Jacob! Hail the chief of nations! Proclaim! Praise! Shout: ‘Yahweh has saved his people, the remnant of Israel!’

^31:10 Listen, nations, to the word of Yahweh. Tell this to the distant islands, ‘He who scattered Israel gathers him, he guards him as a shepherd guards his flock’.

^31:11 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, rescued him from a hand stronger than his own.

^31:12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion, they will throng towards the good things of Yahweh: corn and oil and wine, sheep and oxen; their soul will be like a watered garden, they will sorrow no more.

^31:13 The virgin will then take pleasure in the dance, young men and old will be happy; I will change their mourning into gladness, comfort them, give them joy after their troubles,

^15:21 Jesus left that place and withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

^15:22 Then out came a Canaanite woman from that district and started shouting, ‘Sir, Son of David, take pity on me. My daughter is tormented by a devil.’

^15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples went and pleaded with him. ‘Give her what she wants,’ they said ‘because she is shouting after us.’

^15:24 He said in reply, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel’.

^15:25 But the woman had come up and was kneeling at his feet. ‘Lord,’ she said ‘help me.’

^15:26 He replied, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the house-dogs’.

^15:27 She retorted, ‘Ah yes, sir; but even house-dogs can eat the scraps that fall from their master’s table’.

^15:28 Then Jesus answered her, ‘Woman, you have great faith. Let your wish be granted.’ And from that moment her daughter was well again.