Daily Readings - 24/09/2026

^1:2 Vanity of vanities, Qoheleth says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity!

^1:3 For all his toil, his toil under the sun, what does man gain by it?

^1:4 A generation goes, a generation comes, yet the earth stands firm for ever.

^1:5 The sun rises, the sun sets; then to its place it speeds and there it rises.

^1:6 Southward goes the wind, then turns to the north; it turns and turns again; back then to its circling goes the wind.

^1:7 Into the sea all the rivers go, and yet the sea is never filled, and still to their goal the rivers go.

^1:8 All things are wearisome. No man can say that eyes have not had enough of seeing, ears their fill of hearing.

^1:9 What was will be again; what has been done will be done again; and there is nothing new under the sun.

^1:10 Take anything of which it may be said, ‘Look now, this is new’. Already, long before our time, it existed.

^1:11 Only no memory remains of earlier times, just as in times to come next year itself will not be remembered.

^90:1 Lord, you have been our refuge age after age.

^90:2 Before the mountains were born, before the earth or the world came to birth, you were God from all eternity and for ever.

^90:3 You can turn man back into dust by saying, ‘Back to what you were, you sons of men!’

^90:4 To you, a thousand years are a single day, a yesterday now over, an hour of the night.

^90:5 You brush men away like waking dreams, they are like grass

^90:6 sprouting and flowering in the morning, withered and dry before dusk.

^90:7 We too are burnt up by your anger and terrified by your fury;

^90:8 having summoned up our sins you inspect our secrets by your own light.

^90:9 Our days dwindle under your wrath, our lives are over in a breath

^90:10 our life lasts for seventy years, eighty with good health, but they all add up to anxiety and trouble-over in a trice, and then we are gone.

^90:11 Who yet has felt the full force of your fury, or learnt to fear the violence of your rage?

^90:12 Teach us to count how few days we have and so gain wisdom of heart.

^90:13 Relent, Yahweh! How much longer do we have? Take pity on your servants!

^90:14 Let us wake in the morning filled with your love and sing and be happy all our days;

^90:15 make our future as happy as our past was sad, those years when you were punishing us.

^90:16 Let your servants see what you can do for them, let their children see your glory.

^90:17 May the sweetness of the Lord be on us! Make all we do succeed.

^9:7 Meanwhile Herod the tetrarch had heard about all that was going on; and he was puzzled, because some people were saying that John had risen from the dead,

^9:8 others that Elijah had reappeared, still others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life.

^9:9 But Herod said, ‘John? I beheaded him. So who is this I hear such reports about?’ And he was anxious to see him.