Daily Reading for Thursday, June 8th, 2023

Reading 1, Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14-16

² Remember the long road by which Yahweh your God led you for forty years in the desert, to humble you, to test you and know your inmost heart -- whether you would keep his commandments or not.

³ He humbled you, he made you feel hunger, he fed you with manna which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, to make you understand that human beings live not on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of Yahweh.

¹⁴ do not become proud of heart. Do not then forget Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the place of slave-labour,

¹⁵ who guided you through this vast and dreadful desert, a land of fiery snakes, scorpions, thirst;

¹⁶ who in this waterless place brought you water out of the flinty rock; who in this desert fed you with manna unknown to your ancestors, to humble you and test you and so make your future the happier.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20

¹² Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem, Zion, praise your God.

¹³ For he gives strength to the bars of your gates, he blesses your children within you,

¹⁴ he maintains the peace of your frontiers, gives you your fill of finest wheat.

¹⁵ He sends his word to the earth, his command runs quickly,

¹⁹ He reveals his word to Jacob, his statutes and judgements to Israel.

²⁰ For no other nation has he done this, no other has known his judgements.