Daily Reading for Friday, July 8th, 2022

Reading 1, Hosea 14:2-10

² Israel, come back to Yahweh your God your guilt was the cause of your downfall.

³ Provide yourself with words and come back to Yahweh. Say to him, 'Take all guilt away and give us what is good, instead of bulls we will dedicate to you our lips.

⁴ Assyria cannot save us, we will not ride horses any more, or say, "Our God!" to our own handiwork, for you are the one in whom orphans find compassion.'

⁵ I shall cure them of their disloyalty, I shall love them with all my heart, for my anger has turned away from them.

⁶ I shall fall like dew on Israel, he will bloom like the lily and thrust out roots like the cedar of Lebanon;

⁷ he will put out new shoots, he will have the beauty of the olive tree and the fragrance of Lebanon.

⁸ They will come back to live in my shade; they will grow wheat again, they will make the vine flourish, their wine will be as famous as Lebanon's.

⁹ What has Ephraim to do with idols any more when I hear him and watch over him? I am like an evergreen cypress, you owe your fruitfulness to me.

¹⁰ Let the wise understand these words, let the intelligent grasp their meaning, for Yahweh's ways are straight and the upright will walk in them, but sinners will stumble.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14, 17

³ For I am well aware of my offences, my sin is constantly in mind.

⁴ Against you, you alone, I have sinned, I have done what you see to be wrong, that you may show your saving justice when you pass sentence, and your victory may appear when you give judgement,

⁸ Let me hear the sound of joy and gladness, and the bones you have crushed will dance.

⁹ Turn away your face from my sins, and wipe away all my guilt.

¹² Give me back the joy of your salvation, sustain in me a generous spirit.

¹³ I shall teach the wicked your paths, and sinners will return to you.

¹⁴ Deliver me from bloodshed, God, God of my salvation, and my tongue will acclaim your saving justice.

¹⁷ Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit, a broken, contrite heart you never scorn.