Daily Reading for Friday, July 24th, 2020

Reading 1, Jeremiah 3:14-17

¹⁴ "Come back, disloyal children, Yahweh declares, for I alone am your Master, and I will take you, one from a town, two from a family, and bring you to Zion.

¹⁵ I shall give you shepherds after my own heart, who will pasture you wisely and discreetly.

¹⁶ Then, when you have increased and grown numerous in the country, Yahweh declares, no one will ever again say: The ark of the covenant of Yahweh! It will not enter their minds, they will not remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.

¹⁷ When that time comes, Jerusalem will be called: The Throne of Yahweh, and all the nations will converge on her, on Yahweh's name, on Jerusalem, and will no longer follow their own stubborn and wicked inclinations.

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

¹⁰ For my life is worn out with sorrow, and my years with sighs. My strength gives way under my misery, and my bones are all wasted away.

¹¹ The sheer number of my enemies makes me contemptible, loathsome to my neighbours, and my friends shrink from me in horror. When people see me in the street they take to their heels.

¹² I have no more place in their hearts than a corpse, or something lost.

¹³ All I hear is slander -- terror wherever I turn -- as they plot together against me, scheming to take my life.