Daily Readings - 21/11/2026

^143:1 Yahweh, hear my prayer, listen to my pleading, answer me faithfully, righteously;

^143:2 do not put your servant on trial, no one is virtuous by your standards.

^143:3 An enemy who hounds me to crush me into the dust, forces me to dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago;

^143:4 my spirit fails me and my heart is full of fear.

^143:5 I recall the days of old, I reflect on all that you did, I ponder your deeds;

^143:6 I stretch out my hands, like thirsty ground I yearn for you. (Pause)

^143:7 Quick, Yahweh, answer me before my spirit fails; if you hide your face much longer, I shall go down to the Pit like the rest.

^143:8 Let dawn bring proof of your love, for one who relies on you; let it show the right road, to one who lifts up his soul to you.

^143:9 Yahweh, rescue me from my enemies, I have fled to you for shelter;

^143:10 teach me to obey you, since you are my God; may your good spirit guide me on to level ground.

^143:11 Yahweh, for the sake of your name, keep your promise to save me; protect me from oppression,

^143:12 love me, kill my enemies, destroy my oppressors, for I am your servant.

^20:27 Some Sadducees-those who say that there is no resurrection-approached him and they put this question to him,

^20:28 ‘Master, we have it from Moses in writing, that if a man’s married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother.

^20:29 Well then, there were seven brothers. The first, having married a wife, died childless.

^20:30 The second

^20:31 and then the third married the widow. And the same with all seven, they died leaving no children.

^20:32 Finally the woman herself died

^20:33 Now, at the resurrection, to which of them will she be wife since she had been married to all seven?’

^20:34 Jesus replied, ‘The children of this world take wives and husbands,

^20:35 but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and if’ the resurrection from the dead do not marry

^20:36 because they can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being children of the resurrection they are sons of God.

^20:37 And Moses himself implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob[*b].

^20:38 Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive.’

^20:39 Some scribes[*c] then spoke up. ‘Well put, Master’ they said

^20:40 – because they would not dare to ask him any more questions.

^22:1 My God, my God, why have you deserted me? How far from saving me, the words I groan!

^22:2 I call all day, my God, but you never answer, all night long I call and cannot rest.

^22:3 Yet, Holy One, you who make your home in the praises of Israel,

^22:4 in you our fathers put their trust, they trusted and you rescued them;

^22:5 they called to you for help and they were saved, they never trusted you in vain.

^22:6 Yet here am I, now more worm than man, scorn of mankind, jest of the people,

^22:7 all who see me jeer at me, they toss their heads and sneer,

^22:8 ‘He relied on Yahweh, let Yahweh save him! If Yahweh is his friend, let Him rescue him!’

^22:9 Yet you drew me out of the womb, you entrusted me to my mother’s breasts;

^22:10 placed on your lap from my birth, from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

^22:11 Do not stand aside: trouble is near, I have no one to help me!

^22:12 A herd of bulls surrounds me, strong bulls of Bashan close in on me;

^22:13 their jaws are agape for me, like lions tearing and roaring.

^22:14 I am like water draining away, my bones are all disjointed, my heart is like wax, melting inside me;

^22:16 A pack of dogs surrounds me, a gang of Villains closes me in; they tie me hand and foot

^22:17 I can count every one of my bones, and there they glare at me, gloating;

^22:18 they divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothes.

^22:19 Do not stand aside, Yahweh. O my strength, come quickly to my help;

^22:20 rescue my soul from the sword, my dear life from the paw of the dog,

^22:21 save me from the lion’s mouth, my poor soul from the wild bulls’ horns!

^22:22 Then I shall proclaim your name to my brothers, praise you in full assembly:

^22:23 you who fear Yahweh, praise him! Entire race of Jacob, glorify him! Entire race of Israel, revere him!

^22:24 For he has not despised or disdained the poor man in his poverty, has not hidden his face from him, but has answered him when he called.

^22:25 You are the theme of my praise in the Great Assembly, I perform my vows in the presence of those who fear him.

^22:26 The poor will receive as much as they want to eat. Those who seek Yahweh will praise him. Long life to their hearts!

^22:27 The whole earth, from end to end, will remember and come back to Yahweh; all the families of the nations will bow down before him.

^22:28 For Yahweh reigns, the ruler of nations!

^22:29 Before him all the prosperous of the earth will bow down, before him will bow all who go down to the dust. And my soul will live for him,

^22:30 my children will serve him; men will proclaim the Lord to generations

^22:31 still to come, his righteousness to a people yet unborn. All this he has done.

^15:20 But Christ has in fact been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep.

^15:21 Death came through one man and in the same way the resurrection of the dead has come through one man.

^15:22 Just as all men die in Adam, so all men will be brought to life in Christ;

^15:23 but all of them in their proper order: Christ as the first-fruits and then, after the coming of Christ, those who belong to him.

^15:24 After that will come the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, having done away with every sovereignty, authority and power.

^15:25 For he must be king until he has put all his enemies under his feet[*a]

^15:26 and the last of the enemies to be destroyed is death, for everything is to be put under his feet.

^15:28 And when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subject in his turn to the One who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all.

^25:31 ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, escorted by all the angels, then he will take his seat on his throne of glory.

^25:32 All the nations will be assembled before him and he will separate men one from another as the shepherd separates sheep from goats.

^25:33 He will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left.

^25:34 Then the King will say to those on his right hand, “Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world.

^25:35 For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you made me welcome;

^25:36 naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me.”

^25:37 Then the virtuous will say to him in reply, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink?

^25:38 When did we see you a stranger and make you welcome; naked and clothe you;

^25:39 sick or in prison and go to see you?”

^25:40 And the King will answer, “I tell you solemnly, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me”.

^25:41 Next he will say to those on his left hand, “Go away from me, with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

^25:42 For I was hungry and you never gave me food; I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink;

^25:43 I was a stranger and you never made me welcome, naked and you never clothed me, sick and in prison and you never visited me.”

^25:44 Then it will be their turn to ask, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger or naked, sick or in prison, and did not come to your help?”

^25:45 Then he will answer, “I tell you solemnly, in so far as you neglected to do this to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to me”.

^25:46 And they will go away to eternal punishment, and the virtuous to eternal life.’