Daily Readings - 23/08/2026

^22:19 I dismiss you from your office, I remove you from your post,

^22:20 and the same day I call on my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah.

^22:21 I invest him with your robe, gird him with your sash, entrust him with your authority; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the House of Judah.

^22:22 I place the key of the House of David on his shoulder; should he open, no one shall close, should he close, no one shall open.

^22:23 I drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a throne of glory for his father’s house.

^137:1 Beside the streams of Babylon we sat and wept at the memory of Zion,

^137:2 leaving our harps hanging on the poplars there.

^137:3 For we had been asked to sing to our captors, to entertain those who had carried us off: ‘Sing’ they said ‘some hymns of Zion’.

^137:4 How could we sing one of Yahweh’s hymns in a pagan country?

^137:5 Jerusalem, if I forget you, may my right hand wither!

^137:6 May I never speak again, if I forget you! If I do not count Jerusalem the greatest of my joys!

^137:7 Yahweh, remember what the Sons of Edom did on the day of Jerusalem,[*a] how they said, ‘Down with her! Raze her to the ground!’

^137:8 Destructive Daughter of Babel, a blessing on the man who treats you as you have treated us,

^137:9 a blessing on him who takes and dashes your babies against the rock!

^11:33 How rich are the depths of God – how deep his wisdom and knowledge – and how impossible to penetrate his motives or understand his methods!

^11:34 Who could ever know the mind of the Lord? Who could ever be his counsellor?

^11:35 Who could ever give him anything or lend him anything?[*h]

^11:36 All that exists comes from him; all is by him and for him. To him be glory for ever! Amen.

^16:13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’

^16:14 And they said, ‘Some say he is John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets’.

^16:15 ‘But you,’ he said ‘who do you say I am?’

^16:16 Then Simon Peter spoke up, ‘You are the Christ,’ he said ‘the Son of the living God’.

^16:17 Jesus replied, ‘Simon son of Jonah, you are a happy man! Because it was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you but my Father in heaven.

^16:18 So I now say to you: You are Peter[*b] and on this rock I will build my Church. And the gates of the underworld[*c] can never hold out against it.

^16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.'[*d]

^16:20 Then he gave the disciples strict orders not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.