Daily Reading for Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

Reading 1, Jeremiah 14:17-22

¹⁷ 'So say this word to them: May my eyes shed tears night and day, unceasingly, since the daughter of my people has sustained a fearsome wound, a crippling injury.

¹⁸ If I go into the countryside, there lie those killed by the sword; if I go into the city, I see people tortured with hunger; even prophets and priests roam the country at their wits' end.'

¹⁹ Have you rejected Judah altogether? Does your very soul revolt at Zion? Why have you struck us down without hope of cure? We were hoping for peace -- no good came of it! For the moment of cure -- nothing but terror!

²⁰ Yahweh, we acknowledge our wickedness and our ancestors' guilt: we have indeed sinned against you.

²¹ For your name's sake do not reject us, do not dishonour the throne of your glory. Remember us; do not break your covenant with us.

²² Can any of the nations' Futile Ones make it rain? Can the heavens of their own accord give showers? Are you not the one, Yahweh our God? In you is our hope, since you make all these things.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 79:8, 9, 11, 13

⁸ Do not count against us the guilt of former generations, in your tenderness come quickly to meet us, for we are utterly weakened;

⁹ help us, God our Saviour, for the glory of your name; Yahweh, wipe away our sins, rescue us for the sake of your name.

¹¹ May the groans of the captive reach you, by your great strength save those who are condemned to death!

¹³ And we, your people, the flock that you pasture, will thank you for ever, will recite your praises from age to age.