Daily Reading for Thursday, December 7th, 2023

Reading 1, Isaiah 26:1-6

¹ That day, this song will be sung in Judah: 'We have a fortress city, the walls and ramparts provide safety.

² Open the gates! Let the upright nation come in, the nation that keeps faith!

³ This is the plan decreed: you will guarantee peace, the peace entrusted to you.

⁴ Trust in Yahweh for ever, for Yahweh is a rock for ever.

⁵ He has brought low the dwellers on the heights, the lofty citadel; he lays it low, brings it to the ground, flings it down in the dust.

⁶ It will be trodden under foot, by the feet of the needy, the steps of the weak.'

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27

¹ Alleluia! Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good, for his faithful love endures for ever.

⁸ It is better to take refuge in Yahweh than to rely on human beings;

⁹ better to take refuge in Yahweh than to rely on princes.

¹⁹ Open for me the gates of saving justice, I shall go in and thank Yahweh.

²⁰ This is the gate of Yahweh, where the upright go in.

²¹ I thank you for hearing me, and making yourself my Saviour.

²⁵ We beg you, Yahweh, save us, we beg you, Yahweh, give us victory!

²⁶ Blessed in the name of Yahweh is he who is coming! We bless you from the house of Yahweh.

²⁷ Yahweh is God, he gives us light. Link your processions, branches in hand, up to the horns of the altar.