Daily Readings - 06/09/2026

^94:1 The justice of God Yahweh, God of revenge, God of revenge, appear!

^94:2 Rise, judge of the world, give the proud their deserts!

^94:3 Yahweh, how much longer are the wicked, how much longer are the wicked to triumph?

^94:4 Are these evil men to remain unsilenced, boasting and asserting themselves?

^94:5 Yahweh, they crush your people, they oppress your hereditary people,

^94:6 murdering and massacring widows, orphans and guests.

^94:7 ‘Yahweh sees nothing,’ they say ‘the God of Jacob takes no notice.’

^94:8 You most stupid of men, you fools, think this over and learn some sense.

^94:9 Is the inventor of the ear unable to hear? The creator of the eye unable to see?

^94:10 The punisher of the pagans unable to punish? Yahweh the teacher of mankind

^94:11 knows exactly how men think, how their thoughts are a puff of wind.

^94:12 Yahweh, happy the man whom you instruct, the man whom you teach through your law;

^94:13 his mind is at peace though times are bad, while a pit is being dug for the wicked.

^94:14 For Yahweh has not abandoned or deserted his hereditary people;

^94:15 for verdict will return to righteousness again, and, in its wake, all upright hearts.

^94:16 No one ever stood up for me against the wicked, not a soul took a stand to save me from evil men;

^94:17 without Yahweh’s help, I should, long ago, have gone to the Home of Silence.

^94:18 I need only say, ‘I am slipping’, and your love, Yahweh, immediately supports me;

^94:19 and in the middle of all my troubles you console me and make me happy.

^94:20 You never consent to that corrupt tribunal that imposes disorder as law,

^94:21 that takes the life of the virtuous and condemns the innocent to death.

^94:22 No! Yahweh is still my citadel, my God is a rock where I take shelter;

^94:23 he will pay them back for all their sins, he will silence their wickedness, Yahweh our God will silence them.

^13:8 Avoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations.

^13:9 All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,[*a] and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbour as yourself[*b]

^13:10 Love is the one thing that cannot hurt your neighbour; that is why it is the answer to every one of the commandments.

^18:15 ‘If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, is between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

^18:16 If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain any charge.

^18:17 But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community;[*b] and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a pagan or a tax collector.

^18:18 ‘I tell you solemnly, whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.

^18:19 ‘I tell you solemnly once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven.

^18:20 For where two or three meet in my name, I shall be there with them.’