Daily Reading for Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Reading 1, Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22

¹ The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, as follows,

² 'Yahweh, God of Israel, says this, "Write for yourself in a book all the words I have spoken to you.

¹² Yes, Yahweh says this: Your wound is incurable, your injury past healing.

¹³ There is no one to plead your cause; for an ulcer there are remedies, but for you no cure at all.

¹⁴ All your lovers have forgotten you, they look for you no more. Yes, I have struck you as an enemy strikes, with cruel punishment (because of your great guilt and countless sins).

¹⁵ Why cry out because of your wound? Your pain is incurable! Because of your great guilt and countless sins, I have treated you like this.

¹⁸ Yahweh says this: Look, I shall restore the tents of Jacob and take pity on his dwellings: the town will be rebuilt on its mound, the stronghold where it ought to stand.

¹⁹ From them will come thanksgiving and shouts of joy. I shall make them increase, they will not decrease; I shall make them honoured, no more to be humbled.

²⁰ Their sons will be as once they were, their community fixed firmly before me, and I shall punish all their oppressors.

²¹ Their prince will be one of their own, their ruler come from their own people, and I shall permit him to approach me freely; for who, otherwise, would be so bold as to approach me, Yahweh demands?

²² You will be my people and I shall be your God.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 102:16-18, 19-21, 29, 22-23

¹⁶ when Yahweh builds Zion anew, he will be seen in his glory;

¹⁷ he will turn to hear the prayer of the destitute, and will not treat their prayer with scorn.

¹⁸ This shall be put on record for a future generation, and a people yet to be born shall praise God:

¹⁹ Yahweh has leaned down from the heights of his sanctuary, has looked down from heaven to earth,

²⁰ to listen to the sighing of the captive, and set free those condemned to death,

²¹ to proclaim the name of Yahweh in Zion, his praise in Jerusalem;

²² nations will gather together, and kingdoms to worship Yahweh.

²³ In my journeying my strength has failed on the way;