Daily Reading for Wednesday, January 26th, 2022

Reading 1, Second Samuel 7:4-17

⁴ But that very night, the word of Yahweh came to Nathan:

⁵ 'Go and tell my servant David, "Yahweh says this: Are you to build me a temple for me to live in?

⁶ I have never lived in a house from the day when I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until today, but have kept travelling with a tent for shelter.

⁷ In all my travels with all the Israelites, did I say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I had commanded to shepherd my people Israel: Why do you not build me a cedar-wood temple?"

⁸ This is what you must say to my servant David, "Yahweh Sabaoth says this: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader of my people Israel;

⁹ I have been with you wherever you went; I have got rid of all your enemies for you. I am going to make your fame as great as the fame of the greatest on earth.

¹⁰ I am going to provide a place for my people Israel; I shall plant them there, and there they will live and never be disturbed again; nor will they be oppressed by the wicked any more, as they were in former times

¹¹ ever since the time when I instituted judges to govern my people Israel; and I shall grant you rest from all your enemies. Yahweh furthermore tells you that he will make you a dynasty.

¹² And when your days are over and you fall asleep with your ancestors, I shall appoint your heir, your own son to succeed you (and I shall make his sovereignty secure.

¹³ He will build a temple for my name) and I shall make his royal throne secure for ever.

¹⁴ I shall be a father to him and he a son to me; if he does wrong, I shall punish him with a rod such as men use, with blows such as mankind gives.

¹⁵ But my faithful love will never be withdrawn from him as I withdrew it from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

¹⁶ Your dynasty and your sovereignty will ever stand firm before me and your throne be for ever secure." '

¹⁷ Nathan related all these words and this whole revelation to David.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 89:4-5, 27-28, 29-30

⁴ I have made your dynasty firm for ever, built your throne stable age after age.

⁵ The heavens praise your wonders, Yahweh, your constancy in the gathering of your faithful.

²⁷ So I shall make him my first-born, the highest of earthly kings.

²⁸ 'I shall maintain my faithful love for him always, my covenant with him will stay firm.

²⁹ I have established his dynasty for ever, his throne to be as lasting as the heavens.

³⁰ 'Should his descendants desert my law, and not keep to my rulings,

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