Catholic Daily Reading 17th July 2012

"Isa 7:1  And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joathan, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, that Rasin king of Syria and Phacee the son of Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it: but they could not prevail over it.
Isa 7:2  And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.
Isa 7:3  And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz, thou and Jasub thy son that is left, to the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller's field.
Isa 7:4  And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not, and let not thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these firebrands, smoking with the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of Romelia.
Isa 7:5  Because Syria hath taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying:
Isa 7:6  Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof.
Isa 7:7  Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be.
Isa 7:8  But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a people:
Isa 7:9  And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue."
Isaiah 7.1-9

"Psa 48:2 Great is the Lord, and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
Psa 48:3 With the joy of the whole earth is mount Sion founded, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king.
Psa 48:4 In her houses shall God be known, when he shall protect her.
Psa 48:5 For behold the kings of the earth assembled themselves: they gathered together.
Psa 48:6 So they saw, and they wondered, they were troubled, they were moved:
Psa 48:7 Trembling took hold of them. There were pains as of a woman in labour.
Psa 48:8 With a vehement wind thou shalt break in pieces the ships of Tharsis."
Psalm 48.2-8

"Mat 11:20  Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most of his miracles, for that they had not done penance.
Mat 11:21  Woe thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you, they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes.
Mat 11:22  But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you.
Mat 11:23  And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this day.
Mat 11:24  But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for thee."
Matthew 11.20-24