Daily Readings - 26/08/2026

^128:1 Happy, all those who fear Yahweh and follow in his paths.

^128:2 You will eat what your hands have worked for, happiness and prosperity will be yours.

^128:3 Your wife: a fruitful vine on the inner walls of your house. Your sons: round your table like shoots round an olive tree.

^128:4 Such are the blessings that fall on the man who fears Yahweh.

^128:6 and live to see your children’s children! Peace to Israel!

^23:27 ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who are like whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of corruption.

^23:28 In the same way you appear to people from the outside like good honest men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

^23:29 ‘Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You who build the sepulchres of the prophets and decorate the tombs of holy men,

^23:30 saying, “We would never have joined in shedding the blood of the prophets, had we lived in our fathers’ day”.

^23:31 So! Your own evidence tells against you! You are the sons of those who murdered the prophets!

^23:32 Very well then, finish off the work that your fathers began.