Daily Readings - 04/10/2026

^5:1 Let me sing to my friend the song of his love for his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside.

^5:2 He dug the Soil, cleared it of stones, and planted choice vines in it. In the middle he built a tower, he dug a press there too. He expected it to yield grapes, but sour grapes were all that it gave.

^5:3 And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I ask you to judge between my vineyard and me.

^5:4 What could I have done for my vineyard that I have not done? I expected it to yield grapes. Why did it yield sour grapes instead?

^5:5 Very well, I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge for it to be grazed on, and knock down its wall for it to be trampled on.

^5:6 I will lay it waste, unpruned, undug; overgrown by the briar and the thorn. I will command the clouds to rain no rain on it.

^5:7 Yes, the vineyard of Yahweh Sabaoth is the House of Israel, and the men of Judah that chosen plant. He expected justice, but found bloodshed, integrity, but only a cry of distress.

^80:1 Shepherd of Israel, listen, you who lead Joseph like a flock; enthroned on the cherubs, shine

^80:2 on Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh;[*a] rouse your strength, come to us and save us!

^80:3 Yahweh Sabaoth, bring us back, let your face smile on us and we shall be safe.

^80:4 Yahweh Sabaoth, how much longer will you smoulder at your people’s prayer?

^80:5 Having fed us on the bread of tears, having made us drink them in such measure,

^80:6 you now let our neighbours quarrel over us and our enemies deride us.

^80:7 Yahweh Sabaoth, bring us back, let your face smile on us and we shall be safe.

^80:8 There was a vine: you uprooted it from Egypt; to plant it, you drove out other nations,

^80:9 you cleared a space where it could grow, it took root and filled the whole country.

^80:10 It covered the mountains with its shade, the cedars of God with its branches,

^80:11 its tendrils extended to the sea, its offshoots all the way to the river.[*b]

^80:12 Why have you destroyed its fences? Now anyone can go and steal its grapes,

^80:13 the forest boar can ravage it and wild animals eat it.

^80:14 Please, Yahweh Sabaoth, relent! Look down from heaven, look at this vine, visit it,

^80:15 protect what your own right hand has planted.

^80:16 They threw it on the fire like dung, but one look of reproof from you and they will be doomed.

^80:17 May your hand protect the man at your right, the son of man who has been authorised by you.

^80:18 We shall never turn from you again; our life renewed, we shall invoke your name.

^80:19 Yahweh Sabaoth, bring us back, let your face smile on us and we shall be safe.

^4:6 There is no need to worry; but if there is anything you need, pray for it, asking God for it with prayer and thanksgiving,

^4:7 and that peace of God, which is so much greater than we can understand, will guard your hearts and your thoughts, in Christ Jesus.

^4:8 Finally, brothers, fill your minds with everything that is true, everything that is noble, everything that is good and pure, everything that we love and honour, and everything that can be thought virtuous or worthy of praise.

^4:9 Keep doing all the things that you learnt from me and have been taught by me and have heard or seen that I do. Then the God of peace will be with you.

^21:33 ‘Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad.

^21:34 When vintage time drew near he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his produce.

^21:35 But the tenants seized his servants, thrashed one, killed another and stoned a third.

^21:36 Next he sent some more servants, this time a larger number, and they dealt with them in the same way.

^21:37 Finally he sent his son to them. “They will respect my son” he said.

^21:38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, “This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him and take over his inheritance.”

^21:39 So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

^21:40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’

^21:41 They answered, ‘He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will deliver the produce to him when the season arrives’.

^21:42 Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the scriptures: It was the stone rejected by the builders that became the keystone. This was the Lord’s doing and it is wonderful to see?[*h]

^21:43 I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.’