Daily Reading for Thursday, August 1st, 2024

Reading 1, Jeremiah 18:1-6

¹ The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh as follows,

² 'Get up and make your way down to the potter's house, and there I shall tell you what I have to say.'

³ So I went down to the potter's house; and there he was, working at the wheel.

⁴ But the vessel he was making came out wrong, as may happen with clay when a potter is at work. So he began again and shaped it into another vessel, as he thought fit.

⁵ Then the word of Yahweh came to me as follows,

⁶ 'House of Israel, can I not do to you what this potter does? Yahweh demands. Yes, like clay in the potter's hand, so you are in mine, House of Israel.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 146:1-2, 2-4, 5-6

¹ Alleluia! Praise Yahweh, my soul!

² I will praise Yahweh all my life, I will make music to my God as long as I live.

³ Do not put your trust in princes, in any child of Adam, who has no power to save.

⁴ When his spirit goes forth he returns to the earth, on that very day all his plans come to nothing.

⁵ How blessed is he who has Jacob's God to help him, his hope is in Yahweh his God,

⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them. He keeps faith for ever,