Daily Reading for Saturday, December 9th, 2023

Reading 1, Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26

¹⁹ Yes, people of Zion living in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will be gracious to you when your cry for help rings out; as soon as he hears it, he will answer you.

²⁰ When the Lord has given you the bread of suffering and the water of distress, he who is your teacher will hide no longer, and you will see your teacher with your own eyes.

²¹ Your ears will hear these words behind you, 'This is the way, keep to it,' whether you turn to right or left.

²³ He will send rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the bread that the ground provides will be rich and nourishing. That day, your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

²⁴ Oxen and donkeys that work the land will eat for fodder wild sorrel, spread by the shovel-load and fork-load.

²⁵ On every lofty mountain, on every high hill there will be streams and water-courses, on the day of the great slaughter when the strongholds fall.

²⁶ Then moonlight will be bright as sunlight and sunlight itself be seven times brighter -- like the light of seven days in one -- on the day Yahweh dresses his people's wound and heals the scars of the blows they have received.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

¹ Alleluia! Praise Yahweh -- it is good to sing psalms to our God -- how pleasant to praise him.

² Yahweh, Builder of Jerusalem! He gathers together the exiles of Israel,

³ healing the broken-hearted and binding up their wounds;

⁴ he counts out the number of the stars, and gives each one of them a name.

⁵ Our Lord is great, all-powerful, his wisdom beyond all telling.

⁶ Yahweh sustains the poor, and humbles the wicked to the ground.