Todays Old Testament Reading at Mass

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Lectionary: 222

Reading I

Is 58:9b-14

Thus says the LORD:
If you remove from your midst oppression,
            false accusation and malicious speech;
If you bestow your bread on the hungry
            and satisfy the afflicted;
Then light shall rise for you in the darkness,
            and the gloom shall become for you like midday;
Then the LORD will guide you always
            and give you plenty even on the parched land.
He will renew your strength,
            and you shall be like a watered garden,
            like a spring whose water never fails.
The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt for your sake,
            and the foundations from ages past you shall raise up;
“Repairer of the breach,” they shall call you,
            “Restorer of ruined homesteads.”

If you hold back your foot on the sabbath
            from following your own pursuits on my holy day;
If you call the sabbath a delight,
            and the LORD’s holy day honorable;
If you honor it by not following your ways,
            seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice--
Then you shall delight in the LORD,
            and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father,
            for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.