Daily Readings - 26/08/2026

^127:1 If Yahweh does not build the house, in vain the masons toil; if Yahweh does not guard the city, in vain the sentries watch.

^127:2 In vain you get up earlier, and put off going to bed, sweating to make a living, since he provides for his beloved as they sleep.

^127:3 Sons are a bounty from Yahweh, he rewards with descendants:

^127:4 like the arrows in a hero’s hand are the sons you father when young.

^127:5 Happy the man who has filled his quiver with arrows of this sort; in dispute with his enemies at the gate,[*a] he will not be worsted.

^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.