Daily Bible Readings Wednesday July 16 2008 15th Week of Ordinary Time

July 16 2008 Wednesday 15^th Week of Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day – Our Lady of Mount Carmel

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Isaiah 10:5-7, 13b-16
DR Challoner

Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands. I will send him to a deceitful nation, and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.

For he hath said:

By the strength of my own hand I have done it, and by my own wisdom I have understood: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have taken the spoils of the princes, and as a mighty man hath pulled down them that sat on high. And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made the least noise.

Shall the axe boast itself against him that cutteth with it? or shall the saw exalt itself against him by whom it is drawn? as if a rod should lift itself up against him that lifteth it up, and a staff exalt itself, which is but wood. Therefore the sovereign Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall send leanness among his fat ones: and under his glory shall be kindled a burning, as it were the burning of a fire.

Responsorial Psalm 93:5-10, 14-15 (Ps 94 NAB/Hebrew)
DR Challoner Text Only

Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low:
and they have afflicted thy inheritance.
They have slain the widow and the stranger:
and they have murdered the fatherless.
And they have said: The Lord shall not see:
neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
Understand, ye senseless among the people:
and, you fools, be wise at last.
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?
He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke:
he that teacheth man knowledge?
For the Lord will not cast off his people:
neither will he forsake his own inheritance.
Until justice be turned into judgment:
and they that are near it are all the upright in heart.

The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Matthew 11:25-27
Haydock New Testament

At that time Jesus answered, and said:

I give thanks to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them to little ones. Yea, Father; for so hath it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son, but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

Haydock Commentary Isaiah 10:5-7, 13b-16
Notes Copied From Haydock Commentary Site

• Ver. 5. Woe. Or come on, Heus, though (C.) ho is ordinarily rendered, alas! It here indicates that God makes use of this scourge with regret, and will afterwards consign it to the flames. H. — The prophet speaks of Salmanasar, or of Sennacherib. S. Cyr. S. Jer.
• Ver. 6. Deceitful. Heb. “hypocritical,” joining my worship with that of idols. C. — They had solemnly promised to serve the Lord. Ex. xix. 8. W.
• Ver. 7. So. He will not think that he is executing my vengeance, supposing that he conquers by his own power.
• Ver. 14. Nest. Some put these words in the mouth of God. Tert. Abdias 4. — But they shew the insolence of Sennacherib.
• Ver. 15. Axe. The Assyrian has no right to boast. What can man do without God’s assistance? C. — Gratiæ tuæ deputo et quæcumque non feci mala. S. Aug. Conf. ii. 7. — Sennacherib persecuted the Jews of his own free will, though he was God’s instrument. W.
• Ver. 16. Fire. The Jews assert, that 185,000 perished by an inward burning, so that only ten men were left. v. 19. S. Jer.

Haydock Commentary Matthew 11:25-27

• Ver. 25. Jesus answered, &c. lit. Jesus answering, said: where we may take notice, that answering, in the style of the Scripture, is often put when it is no answer to any thing that was said before. Wi. — Because thou hast hid, &c. Jesus gives thanks to his heavenly Father, because he had revealed the secrets of his coming to his disciples, who, according to the false opinion of men, are called children and fools, and had hid it from the Scribes and Pharisees, whom he in ridicule calls the wise and prudent. By this prayer, he also begs that his heavenly Father would complete what he had begun in his apostles. S. Jerom. — Christ does not rejoice that it was not revealed to the wise and prudent, but because it was revealed to his little ones. S. Thos. Aquin.
• Ver. 26. Yea, Father, &c. S. Chrysostom interprets this passage as if Christ would say, Go on, Father, as you have begun; or the sense may be, I give thee thanks, O Father, that it has pleased thee to act thus, that since the wise men of this world have rejected the gospel, thou hast deigned to manifest it to little ones. M.