Daily Readings - 21/11/2026

^144:1 Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle,

^144:2 my love, my bastion, my citadel, my saviour, I shelter behind him, my shield, he makes the nations submit to me.

^144:3 Yahweh, what is man, that you should notice him? A human being, that you should think about him?

^144:4 Man’s life, a mere puff of wind, his days, as fugitive as shadows.

^144:5 Yahweh, lower your heavens, come down to us! Touch the mountains, make them smoke,

^144:6 flash your lightning – scatter them, shoot your arrows – rout them.

^144:7 Reach down your hand from above, save me, rescue me from deep waters, from the power of aliens

^144:8 who tell nothing but lies, who are prepared to swear to falsehood!

^144:9 God, I have made a new song for you to be played on the ten-string lyre,

^144:10 you who give victory to kings and safety to your servant David. From peril of sword

^144:11 save me, rescue me from the power of aliens who tell nothing but lies, who are prepared to swear to falsehood!

^144:12 May our sons be like plants growing strong from their earliest days, our daughters like corner-statues,[*a] carvings fit for a palace;

^144:13 may our barns overflow with every possible crop, may the sheep in our fields be counted in their thousands and tens of thousands,

^144:14 may our cattle be stout and strong; and may there be an end of raids and exile, and of panic in our streets.

^144:15 Happy the nation of whom this is true, happy the nation whose God is Yahweh!

^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.

^23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

^23:2 In meadows of green grass he lets me lie. To the waters of repose he leads me;

^23:3 there he revives my soul. He guides me by paths of virtue for the sake of his name.

^23:4 Though I pass through a gloomy Valley, beside me your rod and your staff are there, to hearten me.

^23:5 You prepare a table before me under the eyes of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil, my cup brims over.

^23:6 Ah, how goodness and kindness pursue me, every day of my life, my home, the house of Yahweh, as long as I live!

^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.’