Daily Reading for Tuesday, August 12th, 2025

Reading 1, Deuteronomy 31:1-8

¹ Moses went and spoke to all Israel as follows,

² 'Today, I am one hundred and twenty years old, and can no longer act as leader. Yahweh has told me, "You shall not cross this Jordan."

³ Yahweh your God himself will lead you across, he himself will destroy and dispossess these nations confronting you; Joshua too will lead you across, as Yahweh has said.

⁴ Yahweh will treat them as he has treated Sihon and Og the Amorite kings and their country -- he destroyed them.

⁵ Yahweh will put them at your mercy, and you will deal with them exactly as prescribed by the commandments which I have laid down for you.

⁶ Be strong, stand firm, have no fear, do not be afraid of them, for Yahweh your God is going with you; he will not fail you or desert you.'

⁷ Moses then summoned Joshua and, in the presence of all Israel, said to him, 'Be strong, stand firm; you will be the one to go with this people into the country which Yahweh has sworn to their ancestors that he would give them; you are to be the one who puts them into possession of it.

⁸ Yahweh himself will lead you; he will be with you; he will not fail you or desert you. Have no fear, do not be alarmed.'

Responsorial Psalm, Deuteronomy 32:3-4, 7, 8, 9, 12

³ For I shall proclaim the name of Yahweh. Oh, tell the greatness of our God!

⁴ He is the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are equitable. A trustworthy God who does no wrong, he is the Honest, the Upright One!

⁷ Think back on the days of old, think over the years, down the ages. Question your father, let him explain to you, your elders, and let them tell you!

⁸ When the Most High gave the nations each their heritage, when he partitioned out the human race, he assigned the boundaries of nations according to the number of the children of God,

⁹ but Yahweh's portion was his people, Jacob was to be the measure of his inheritance.

¹² Yahweh alone is his guide; no alien god for him!