Daily Reading for Friday, December 13th, 2019

Reading 1, Isaiah 48:17-19

¹⁷ Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God and teach you for your own good, I lead you in the way you ought to go.

¹⁸ If only you had listened to my commandments! Your prosperity would have been like a river and your saving justice like the waves of the sea.

¹⁹ Your descendants would have been numbered like the sand, your offspring as many as its grains. Their name would never be cancelled or blotted out from my presence.

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6

¹ How blessed is anyone who rejects the advice of the wicked and does not take a stand in the path that sinners tread, nor a seat in company with cynics,

² but who delights in the law of Yahweh and murmurs his law day and night.

³ Such a one is like a tree planted near streams; it bears fruit in season and its leaves never wither, and every project succeeds.

⁴ How different the wicked, how different! Just like chaff blown around by the wind

⁶ For Yahweh watches over the path of the upright, but the path of the wicked is doomed.

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Gospel, Matthew 11:16-19

¹⁶ 'What comparison can I find for this generation? It is like children shouting to each other as they sit in the market place:

¹⁷ We played the pipes for you, and you wouldn't dance; we sang dirges, and you wouldn't be mourners.

¹⁸ 'For John came, neither eating nor drinking, and they say, "He is possessed."

¹⁹ The Son of man came, eating and drinking, and they say, "Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners." Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.'