Daily Reading for Wednesday, August 7th, 2024

Reading 1, Jeremiah 31:1-7

¹ When that time comes, Yahweh declares, I shall be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.

² Yahweh says this: They have found pardon in the desert, those who have survived the sword. Israel is marching to his rest.

³ Yahweh has appeared to me from afar; I have loved you with an everlasting love and so I still maintain my faithful love for you.

⁴ I shall build you once more, yes, you will be rebuilt, Virgin of Israel! Once more in your best attire, and with your tambourines, you will go out dancing gaily.

⁵ Once more you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria (those who plant will themselves enjoy the fruit).

⁶ Yes, a day will come when the watchmen shout on the mountains of Ephraim, 'Up! Let us go up to Zion, to Yahweh our God!'

⁷ For Yahweh says this: Shout with joy for Jacob! Hail the chief of nations! Proclaim! Praise! Shout, 'Yahweh has saved his people, the remnant of Israel!'

Responsorial Psalm, Jeremiah 31:10, 11-12, 13

¹⁰ Listen, nations, to the word of Yahweh. On the farthest coasts and islands proclaim it, say, 'He who scattered Israel is gathering him, will guard him as a shepherd guarding his flock.'

¹¹ For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, rescued him from a hand stronger than his own.

¹² They will come, shouting for joy on the heights of Zion, thronging towards Yahweh's lavish gifts, for wheat, new wine and oil, sheep and cattle; they will be like a well-watered garden, they will sorrow no more.

¹³ The young girl will then take pleasure in the dance, and young men and old alike; I shall change their mourning into gladness, comfort them, give them joy after their troubles;

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