Daily Reading for Sunday, January 21st, 2018

Reading 1, Jonah 3:1-5, 10

¹ The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah a second time.

² 'Up!' he said, 'Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to it as I shall tell you.'

³ Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare; to cross it took three days.

⁴ Jonah began by going a day's journey into the city and then proclaimed, 'Only forty days more and Nineveh will be overthrown.'

⁵ And the people of Nineveh believed in God; they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least.

¹⁰ God saw their efforts to renounce their evil ways. And God relented about the disaster which he had threatened to bring on them, and did not bring it.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9

⁴ DIRECT me in your ways, Yahweh, and teach me your paths.

⁵ ENCOURAGE me to walk in your truth and teach me since you are the God who saves me. FOR my hope is in you all day long -- such is your generosity, Yahweh.

⁶ GOODNESS and faithful love have been yours for ever, Yahweh, do not forget them.

⁷ HOLD not my youthful sins against me, but remember me as your faithful love dictates.

⁸ INTEGRITY and generosity are marks of Yahweh for he brings sinners back to the path.

⁹ JUDICIOUSLY he guides the humble, instructing the poor in his way.