FIRST READING* _Yahweh, the Creator of the heavens -- he is God, who shaped the earth and made it,_ *A reading from the Prophet Isaiah 45:6-8, 18, 21-25*

_🌿Daily Reading for Wednesday December 16, 2020_ 

*FIRST READING* 

_Yahweh, the Creator of the heavens -- he is God, 

who shaped the earth and made it,_ 

*A reading from the Prophet Isaiah 45:6-8, 18, 21-25* 

so that it may be known from east to west that there is no one except me. I am Yahweh, and there is no other,

I form the light and I create the darkness, I make well-being, and I create disaster, I, Yahweh, do all these things. Rain down, you heavens, from above, and let the clouds pour down saving justice, let the earth open up and blossom with salvation, and let justice sprout with it; I, Yahweh, have created it!  For thus says Yahweh, the Creator of the heavens -- he is God, who shaped the earth and made it, who set it firm; he did not create it to be chaos, he formed it to be lived in: I am Yahweh, and there is no other. Speak up, present your case, let them put their heads together! Who foretold this in the past, who revealed it long ago? Was it not I, Yahweh? There is no other god except me, no saving God, no Saviour except me! Turn to me and you will be saved, all you ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is no other. By my own self I swear it; what comes from my mouth is saving justice, it is an irrevocable word: All shall bend the knee to me, by me every tongue shall swear, saying, 'In Yahweh alone are saving justice and strength,' until all those who used to rage at him come to him in shame. In Yahweh the whole race of Israel finds justice and glory. 

*The Word of the Lord.*