Daily Reading for Saturday, December 18th, 2021

Reading 1, Jeremiah 23:5-8

⁵ Look, the days are coming, Yahweh declares, when I shall raise an upright Branch for David; he will reign as king and be wise, doing what is just and upright in the country.

⁶ In his days Judah will triumph and Israel live in safety. And this is the name he will be called, 'Yahweh-is-our-Saving-Justice.' "

⁷ 'So, look, the days are coming, Yahweh declares, when people will no longer say, "As Yahweh lives who brought the Israelites out of Egypt,"

⁸ but, "As Yahweh lives who led back and brought home the offspring of the House of Israel from the land of the north and all the countries to which he had driven them, to live on their own soil." '

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 72:1, 12-13, 18-19

¹ [Of Solomon] God, endow the king with your own fair judgement, the son of the king with your own saving justice,

¹² For he rescues the needy who calls to him, and the poor who has no one to help.

¹³ He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the needy from death.

¹⁸ Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who alone works wonders;

¹⁹ blessed for ever his glorious name. May the whole world be filled with his glory! Amen! Amen!