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.’

^84:1 How I love your palace, Yahweh Sabaoth! How my soul yearns and pines for Yahweh’s courts!

^84:2 My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

^84:3 The sparrow has found its home at last, the swallow a nest for its young, your altars, Yahweh Sabaoth, my king and my God.

^84:4 Happy those who live in your house and can praise you all day long;

^84:5 and happy the pilgrims inspired by you with courage to make the Ascents! (pause)

^84:6 As they go through the Valley of the Weeper,[*a] they make it a place of springs, clothed in blessings by early rains.

^84:7 Thence they make their way from height to height, soon to be seen before God on Zion.

^84:8 Yahweh Sabaoth, hear my prayer, listen, God of Jacob;

^84:9 God our shield, now look on us and be kind to your anointed. (pause)

^84:10 A single day in your courts is worth more than a thousand elsewhere; merely to stand on the steps of God’s[*b] house is better than living with the wicked.

^84:11 For God is battlement and shield, conferring grace and glory; Yahweh withholds nothing good from those who walk without blame.

^84:12 Yahweh Sabaoth, happy the man who puts his trust in you!

^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’.