Daily Readings - 29/11/2026

^63:16 Do not let your compassion go unmoved, for you are our Father. For Abraham does not own us and Israel[*a] does not acknowledge us; you, Yahweh, yourself are our Father, Our Redeemer is your ancient name.

^63:17 Why, Yahweh, leave us to stray from your ways and harden our hearts against fearing you? Return, for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.

^63:19 We have long been like people you do not rule, people who do not bear your name. Oh, that you would tear the heavens open and come down – at your Presence the mountains would melt,

^64:2 working unexpected miracles

^64:3 such as no one has ever heard of before. No ear has heard, no eye has seen any god but you act like this for those who trust him.

^64:4 You guide those who act with integrity and keep your ways in mind. You were angry when we were sinners; we had long been rebels against you.

^64:5 We were all like men unclean, all that integrity of ours like filthy clothing. We have all withered like leaves and our sins blew us away like the wind.

^64:6 No one invoked your name or roused himself to catch hold of you. For you hid your face from us and gave us up to the power of our sins.

^64:7 And yet, Yahweh, you are our Father; we the clay, you the potter, we are all the work of your hand.

^79:1 God, the pagans have invaded your heritage, they have desecrated your holy Temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to a pile of ruins,

^79:2 they have left the corpses of your servants to the birds of the air for food, and the flesh of your devout to the beasts of the earth.

^79:3 They have shed blood like water throughout Jerusalem, not a gravedigger left!

^79:4 we are now insulted by our neighbours, butt and laughing-stock of all those around us.

^79:5 How much longer will you be angry, Yahweh? For ever? Is your jealousy to go on smouldering like a fire?

^79:6 Pour out your anger on the pagans, who do not acknowledge you, and on those kingdoms that do not call on your name,

^79:7 for they have devoured Jacob and reduced his home to desolation.

^79:8 Do not hold our ancestors’ crimes against us, in tenderness quickly intervene, we can hardly be crushed lower;

^79:9 help us, God our saviour, for the honour of your name; Yahweh, blot out our sins, rescue us for the sake of your name.

^79:10 Why should the pagans ask, ‘Where is their God?’ May we soon see the pagans learning what vengeance you exact for your servants’ blood shed here!

^79:11 May the groans of the captive reach you; by your mighty arm rescue those doomed to die!

^79:12 Pay our neighbours sevenfold, strike to the heart for the monstrous insult proffered to you, Lord!

^79:13 And we your people, the flock that you pasture, giving you everlasting thanks, will recite your praises for ever and ever.

^1:3 May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ send you grace and peace.

^1:4 I never stop thanking God for all the graces you have received through Jesus Christ.

^1:5 I thank him that you have been enriched in so many ways, especially in your teachers and preachers;

^1:6 the witness to Christ has indeed been strong among you

^1:7 so that you will not be without any of the gifts of the Spirit while you are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed;

^1:8 and he will keep you steady and without blame until the last day, the day of our Lord Jesus Christ,

^1:9 because God by calling you has joined you to his Son, Jesus Christ; and God is faithful.

^13:33 ‘Be on your guard, stay awake, because you never know when the time will come.

^13:34 It is like a man travelling abroad: he has gone from home, and left his servants in charge, each with his own task; and he has told the doorkeeper to stay awake.

^13:35 So stay awake, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming, evening, midnight, cockcrow, dawn;

^13:36 if he comes unexpectedly, he must not find you asleep.

^13:37 And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake!’