Daily Readings - 16/12/2026

^45:6 that men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun that, apart from me, all is nothing.

^45:7 I form the light and create the dark. I make good fortune and create calamity, it is I, Yahweh, who do all this.

^45:8 Send victory like a dew, you heavens, and let the clouds rain it down. Let the earth open for salvation to spring up. Let deliverance, too, bud forth which I, Yahweh, shall create.

^45:18 Yes, thus says Yahweh, creator of the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it, who set it firm, created it no chaos, but a place to be lived in:

^45:21 Speak up, present your case, consult with each other. ‘Who foretold this and revealed it in the past? Am I not Yahweh? There is no other god besides me, a God of integrity and a saviour; there is none apart from me.

^45:22 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God unrivalled.

^45:23 ‘By my own self I swear it; what comes from my mouth is truth, a word irrevocable: before me every knee shall bend, by me every tongue shall swear,

^45:24 saying, “From Yahweh alone come victory and strength”. To him shall come, ashamed, all who raged against him.

^45:25 Victorious and glorious through Yahweh shall be all the descendants of Israel.’

^85:1 Yahweh, you favour your own country, you bring back the captives of Jacob,

^85:2 you take your people’s guilt away, you blot out all their sins, (pause)

^85:3 you retract all your anger, you abjure your fiery rage.

^85:4 Bring us back, God our saviour, master your resentment against us.

^85:5 Do you mean to be angry with us for ever, to prolong your wrath age after age?

^85:6 Will you not give us life again, for your people to rejoice in you?

^85:7 Yahweh, show us your love, grant us your saving help.

^85:8 I am listening. What is Yahweh saying? What God is saying means peace for his people, for his friends, if only they renounce their folly;

^85:9 for those who fear him, his saving help is near, and the glory will then live in our country.

^85:10 Love and Loyalty now meet, Righteousness and Peace now embrace;

^85:11 Loyalty reaches up from earth and Righteousness leans down from heaven.

^85:12 Yahweh himself bestows happiness as our soil gives its harvest,

^85:13 Righteousness always preceding him and Peace following his footsteps.

^7:19 sent them to the Lord to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or must we wait for someone else?’

^7:20 When the men reached Jesus they said, ‘John the Baptist has sent us to you, to ask, “Are you the one who is to come or have we to wait for someone else?”‘

^7:21 lt was just then that he cured many people of diseases and afflictions and of evil spirits, and gave the gift of sight to many who were blind.

^7:22 Then he gave the messengers their answer, ‘Go back and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind see again, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, the Good News is proclaimed to the poor

^7:23 and happy is the man who does not lose faith in me’.