Daily Readings - 30/09/2026

^87:1 his city founded on the holy mountain;

^87:3 He has glorious predictions to make of you, city of God! (pause)

^87:4 ‘I will add Egypt and Babylon to the nations that acknowledge me. Of Philistia, Tyre, Ethiopia, “Here so and so was born” men say.

^87:5 But all call Zion “Mother”, since all were born in her.’ It is he who makes her what she is, he, the Most High,

^87:6 Yahweh; and as he registers the peoples, ‘It was here’ he writes ‘that so and so was born’. (pause)

^87:7 And there will be princes dancing there[*a]. All find their home in you.

^9:57 As they travelled along they met a man on the road who said to him, ‘I will follow you wherever you go’.

^9:58 Jesus answered, ‘Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head’.

^9:59 Another to whom he said, ‘Follow me’, replied, ‘Let me go and bury my father first’.

^9:60 But he answered, ‘Leave the dead to bury their dead; your duty is to go and spread the news of the kingdom of God’.

^9:61 Another said, ‘I will follow you, sir, but first let me go and say good-bye to my people at home’.

^9:62 Jesus said to him, ‘Once the hand is laid on the plough, no one who looks back is fit for the kingdom of God’.