Daily Reading for Monday, August 9th, 2021

Reading 1, Deuteronomy 10:12-22

¹² 'And now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask of you? Only this: to fear Yahweh your God, to follow all his ways, to love him, to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and all your soul,

¹³ to keep the commandments and laws of Yahweh, which I am laying down for you today for your own good.

¹⁴ 'Look, to Yahweh your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth and everything on it;

¹⁵ yet it was on your ancestors, for love of them, that Yahweh set his heart to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, you yourselves, out of all nations, up to the present day.

¹⁶ Circumcise your heart then and be obstinate no longer;

¹⁷ for Yahweh your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, triumphant and terrible, free of favouritism, never to be bribed.

¹⁸ He it is who sees justice done for the orphan and the widow, who loves the stranger and gives him food and clothing.

¹⁹ (Love the stranger then, for you were once strangers in Egypt.)

²⁰ Yahweh your God is the one whom you must fear and serve; to him you must hold firm; in his name take your oaths.

²¹ Him you must praise, he is your God: for you he has done these great and terrible things which you have seen for yourselves;

²² and, although your ancestors numbered only seventy persons when they went down to Egypt, Yahweh your God has now made you as many as the stars of heaven.'

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20

¹² Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem, Zion, praise your God.

¹³ For he gives strength to the bars of your gates, he blesses your children within you,

¹⁴ he maintains the peace of your frontiers, gives you your fill of finest wheat.

¹⁵ He sends his word to the earth, his command runs quickly,

¹⁹ He reveals his word to Jacob, his statutes and judgements to Israel.

²⁰ For no other nation has he done this, no other has known his judgements.

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