Daily Reading for Tuesday, July 9th, 2024

Reading 1, Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13

⁴ They have set up kings, but without my consent, and appointed princes, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold, they have made themselves idols, but only to be destroyed.

⁵ I spurn your calf, Samaria! My anger blazes against them! How long will it be before they recover their innocence?

⁶ For it is the product of Israel- a craftsman made the thing, it is no god at all! The calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces!

⁷ Since they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; stalk without ear, it will never yield flour- or if it does, foreigners will swallow it.

¹¹ Ephraim keeps building altars for his sins, these very altars are themselves a sin.

¹² However much of my Law I write for him, Ephraim regards it as alien to him.

¹³ They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat, they do not win Yahweh's favour. On the contrary, he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they will have to go back to Egypt.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 115:3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10

³ Our God is in heaven, he creates whatever he chooses.

⁴ They have idols of silver and gold, made by human hands.

⁵ These have mouths but say nothing, have eyes but see nothing,

⁶ have ears but hear nothing, have noses but smell nothing.

⁷ They have hands but cannot feel, have feet but cannot walk, no sound comes from their throats.

⁸ Their makers will end up like them, and all who rely on them.

⁹ House of Israel, rely on Yahweh; he is their help and their shield.

¹⁰ House of Aaron, rely on Yahweh; he is their help and their shield.