Daily Readings - 19/08/2026

^23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

^23:2 In meadows of green grass he lets me lie. To the waters of repose he leads me;

^23:3 there he revives my soul. He guides me by paths of virtue for the sake of his name.

^23:4 Though I pass through a gloomy Valley, beside me your rod and your staff are there, to hearten me.

^23:5 You prepare a table before me under the eyes of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil, my cup brims over.

^23:6 Ah, how goodness and kindness pursue me, every day of my life, my home, the house of Yahweh, as long as I live!

^20:1 ‘Now the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner going out at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard.

^20:2 He made an agreement with the workers for one denarius a day, and sent them to his vineyard.

^20:3 Going out at about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place

^20:4 and said to them, “You go to my vineyard too and I will give you a fair wage”.

^20:5 So they went. At about the sixth hour and again at about the ninth hour, he went out and did the same.

^20:6 Then at about the eleventh hour he went out and found more men standing round, and he said to them, “Why have you been standing here idle all day?”

^20:7 “Because no one has hired us” they answered. He said to them, “You go into my vineyard too”.

^20:8 In the evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his bailiff, “Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last arrivals and ending with the first”.

^20:9 So those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came forward and received one denarius each.

^20:10 When the first came, they expected to get more, but they too received one denarius each.

^20:11 They took it, but grumbled at the landowner.

^20:12 “The men who came last” they said “have done only one hour, and you have treated them the same as us, though we have done a heavy day’s work in all the heat.”

^20:13 He answered one of them and said, “My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius?

^20:14 Take your earnings and go. I choose to pay the last comer as much as I pay you.

^20:15 Have I no right to do what I like with my own? Why be envious because I am generous?”

^20:16 Thus the last will be first, and the first, last.’