Daily Readings - 25/09/2026

^3:1 There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven:

^3:2 A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted.

^3:3 A time for killing, a time for healing; a time for knocking down, a time for building.

^3:4 A time for tears, a time for laughter; a time for mourning, a time for dancing.

^3:5 A time for throwing stones away, a time for gathering them up; a time for embracing, a time to refrain from embracing.

^3:6 A time for searching, a time for losing; a time for keeping, a time for throwing away.

^3:7 A time for tearing, a time for sewing; a time for keeping silent, a time for speaking.

^3:8 A time for loving, a time for hating; a time for war, a time for peace.

^3:9 What does a man gain for the efforts that he makes? .

^3:10 I contemplate the task that God gives mankind to labour at.

^3:11 All that he does is apt for its time; but though he has permitted man to consider time in its wholeness, man cannot comprehend the work of God from beginning to end.

^144:1 Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle,

^144:2 my love, my bastion, my citadel, my saviour, I shelter behind him, my shield, he makes the nations submit to me.

^144:3 Yahweh, what is man, that you should notice him? A human being, that you should think about him?

^144:4 Man’s life, a mere puff of wind, his days, as fugitive as shadows.

^144:5 Yahweh, lower your heavens, come down to us! Touch the mountains, make them smoke,

^144:6 flash your lightning – scatter them, shoot your arrows – rout them.

^144:7 Reach down your hand from above, save me, rescue me from deep waters, from the power of aliens

^144:8 who tell nothing but lies, who are prepared to swear to falsehood!

^144:9 God, I have made a new song for you to be played on the ten-string lyre,

^144:10 you who give victory to kings and safety to your servant David. From peril of sword

^144:11 save me, rescue me from the power of aliens who tell nothing but lies, who are prepared to swear to falsehood!

^144:12 May our sons be like plants growing strong from their earliest days, our daughters like corner-statues,[*a] carvings fit for a palace;

^144:13 may our barns overflow with every possible crop, may the sheep in our fields be counted in their thousands and tens of thousands,

^144:14 may our cattle be stout and strong; and may there be an end of raids and exile, and of panic in our streets.

^144:15 Happy the nation of whom this is true, happy the nation whose God is Yahweh!

^9:18 Now one day when he was praying alone in the presence of his disciples he put this question to them, ‘Who do the crowds say I am?’

^9:19 And they answered, ‘John the Baptist; others Elijah; and others say one of the ancient prophets come back to life’.

^9:20 ‘But you,’ he said ‘who do you say I am?’ It was Peter who spoke up. ‘The Christ of God’ he said.

^9:21 But he gave them strict orders not to tell anyone anything about this.

^9:22 ‘The Son of Man’ he said ‘is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day.’