Daily Reading for Sunday, July 30th, 2023

Reading 1, First Kings 3:5, 7-12

⁵ At Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream during the night. God said, 'Ask what you would like me to give you.'

⁷ Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king in succession to David my father. But I am a very young man, unskilled in leadership.

⁸ And here is your servant, surrounded with your people whom you have chosen, a people so numerous that its number cannot be counted or reckoned.

⁹ So give your servant a heart to understand how to govern your people, how to discern between good and evil, for how could one otherwise govern such a great people as yours?'

¹⁰ It pleased Yahweh that Solomon should have asked for this.

¹¹ 'Since you have asked for this,' God said, 'and not asked for long life for yourself or riches or the lives of your enemies but have asked for a discerning judgement for yourself,

¹² here and now I do what you ask. I give you a heart wise and shrewd as no one has had before and no one will have after you.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130

⁵⁷ My task, I have said, Yahweh, is to keep your word.

⁷² The Law you have uttered is more precious to me than all the wealth in the world.

⁷⁶ Your faithful love must be my consolation, as you have promised your servant.

⁷⁷ Treat me with tenderness and I shall live, for your Law is my delight.

¹²⁷ So I love your commandments more than gold, purest gold.

¹²⁸ So I rule my life by your precepts, I hate all deceptive paths.

¹²⁹ Wonderful are your instructions, so I observe them.

¹³⁰ As your word unfolds it gives light, and even the simple understand.