Daily Readings - 15/11/2026

^127:1 If Yahweh does not build the house, in vain the masons toil; if Yahweh does not guard the city, in vain the sentries watch.

^127:2 In vain you get up earlier, and put off going to bed, sweating to make a living, since he provides for his beloved as they sleep.

^127:3 Sons are a bounty from Yahweh, he rewards with descendants:

^127:4 like the arrows in a hero’s hand are the sons you father when young.

^127:5 Happy the man who has filled his quiver with arrows of this sort; in dispute with his enemies at the gate,[*a] he will not be worsted.

^25:14 ‘It is like a man on his way abroad who summoned his servants and entrusted his property to them.

^25:15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to a third is one; each in proportion to his ability. Then he set out.

^25:16 The man who had received the five talents promptly went and traded with them and made five more.

^25:17 The man who had received two made two more in the same way.

^25:18 But the man who had received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.

^25:19 Now a long time after, the master of those servants came back and went through his accounts with them.

^25:20 The man who had received the five talents came forward bringing five more. “Sir,” he said “you entrusted me with five talents; here are five more that I have made.”

^25:21 His master said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will trust you with greater; come and join in your master’s happiness”.

^25:22 Next the man with the two talents came forward. “Sir,” he said “you entrusted me with two talents; here are two more that I have made.”

^25:23 His master said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant; you have shown you can be faithful in small things, I will trust you with greater; come and join in your master’s happiness”.

^25:24 Last came forward the man who had the one talent. “Sir,” said he “I had heard you were a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered;

^25:25 so I was afraid, and I went off and hid your talent in the ground. Here it is; it was yours, you have it back.”

^25:26 But his master answered him, “You wicked and lazy servant! So you knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered?

^25:27 Well then, you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have recovered my capital with interest.

^25:28 So now, take the talent from him and give it to the man who has the five talents.

^25:29 For to everyone who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough; but from the man who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

^25:30 As for this good-for-nothing servant, throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.”