Daily Readings - 30/08/2026

^20:7 You have seduced me, Yahweh, and I have let myself be seduced; you have overpowered me: you were the stronger. I am a daily laughing-stock, everybody’s butt.

^20:8 Each time I speak the word, I have to howl and proclaim: ‘Violence and ruin!’ The word of Yahweh has meant for me insult, derision, all day long.

^20:9 I used to say, ‘I will not think about him, I will not speak in his name any more. Then there seemed to be a fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones. The effort to restrain it wearied me, I could not bear it.

^63:1 God, you are my God, I am seeking you, my soul is thirsting for you, my flesh is longing for you, a land parched, weary and waterless;

^63:2 I long to gaze on you in the Sanctuary, and to see your power and glory.

^63:3 Your love is better than life itself, my lips will recite your praise;

^63:4 all my life I will bless you, in your name lift up my hands;

^63:5 my soul will feast most richly, on my lips a song of joy and, in my mouth, praise.

^63:6 On my bed I think of you, I meditate on you all night long,

^63:7 for you have always helped me. I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings;

^63:8 my soul clings close to you, your right hand supports me.

^63:9 But may those now hounding me to death go down to the earth below,

^63:10 consigned to the edge of the sword, and left as food for jackals.

^63:11 Then will the king rejoice in God, and all who swear by him be able to boast once these lying mouths are silenced.

^12:1 Think of God’s mercy, my brothers, and worship him, I beg you, in a way that is worthy of thinking beings, by offering your living bodies as a holy sacrifice, truly pleasing to God.

^12:2 Do not model yourselves on the behaviour of the world around you, but let your behaviour change, modelled by your new mind. This is the only way to discover the will of God and know what is good, what it is that God wants, what is the perfect thing to do.

^16:21 From that time Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, to be put to death and to be raised up on the third day.

^16:22 Then, taking him aside, Peter started to remonstrate with him. ‘Heaven preserve you, Lord;’ he said ‘this must not happen to you’.

^16:23 But he turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because the way you think is not God’s way but man’s.’

^16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me.

^16:25 For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.

^16:26 What, then, will a man gain if he wins the whole world and ruins his life? Or what has a man to offer in exchange for his life?

^16:27 ‘For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and, when he does, he will reward each one according to his behaviour.