Daily Readings - 02/10/2026

^139:1 Yahweh, you examine me and know me,

^139:2 you know if I am standing or sitting, you read my thoughts from far away,

^139:3 whether I walk or lie down, you are watching, you know every detail of my conduct.

^139:4 The word is not even on my tongue, Yahweh, before you know all about it;

^139:5 close behind and close in front you fence me round, shielding me with your hand.

^139:6 Such knowledge is beyond my understanding, a height to which my mind cannot attain.

^139:7 Where could I go to escape your spirit? Where could I flee from your presence?

^139:8 If I climb the heavens, you are there, there too, if I lie in Sheol

^139:9 If I flew to the point of sunrise, or westward across the sea,

^139:10 your hand would still be guiding me, your right hand holding me.

^139:11 If I asked darkness to cover me, and light to become night around me,

^139:12 that darkness would not be dark to you, night would be as light as day.

^139:13 It was you who created my inmost self, and put me together in my mother’s womb;

^139:14 for all these mysteries I thank you: for the wonder of myself, for the wonder of your works. You know me through and through,

^139:15 from having watched my bones take shape when I was being formed in secret, knitted together in the limbo of the womb.

^139:16 You had scrutinised my every action, all were recorded in your book, my days listed and determined, even before the first of them

^139:17 occurred. God, how hard it is to grasp your thoughts! How impossible to count them!

^139:18 I could no more count them than I could the sand, and suppose I could, you would still be with me.

^139:19 God, If only you would kill the wicked! Men of blood, away from me!

^139:20 They talk blasphemously about you, regard your thoughts as nothing.

^139:21 Yahweh, do I not hate those who hate you, and loathe those who defy you?

^139:22 I hate them with a total hatred, I regard them as my own enemies.

^139:23 God, examine me and know my heart, probe me and know my thoughts;

^139:24 make sure I do not follow pernicious ways, and guide me in the way that is everlasting.

^18:1 At this time the disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’

^18:2 So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them.

^18:3 Then he said, ‘I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

^18:4 And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

^18:5 ‘Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.

^18:10 ‘See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven.[*a]