Gospel of 18 July 2018

Wednesday of the XNUMXth week of Ordinary Time

Book of Isaiah 10,5-7.13-16.
Thus saith the Lord: Oh! Assyria, rod of my fury, stick of my indignation.
Against an unholy nation I send and command against a people with whom I am angry that you plunder it, prey on it and trample it like street mud.
But she does not think so and does not judge her heart, but wants to destroy and annihilate many nations.
For he said: “With the strength of my hand I have acted and with my wisdom, because I am intelligent; I have removed the boundaries of peoples and plundered their treasures, I have shot down those who sat on the throne like a giant.
My hand, like in a nest, has found the wealth of peoples. As abandoned eggs are collected, so I have collected all the earth; there was no wing flap, nobody opened their beak or peeped ".
Can the ax boast with those who cut by its means or the saw grow proud against those who handle it? As if a stick wanted to wield the one who wields it and a rod lift what is not of wood!
Therefore the Lord God of hosts will send a plague against his most valuable militias; under what is his glory will burn a burning like burning of fire.

Salmi 94(93),5-6.7-8.9-10.14-15.
Lord, trample on your people,
oppress your inheritance.
They kill the widow and the stranger,
they kill orphans.
They say: "The Lord does not see,
the God of Jacob does not care. "

Understand, senseless among the people,
fools, when will you become wise?
Who formed the ear, perhaps does not hear?
Who has shaped the eye, perhaps does not look?
Whoever rules peoples may not chastise,
he who teaches man knowledge?

Because the Lord does not reject his people,
his legacy cannot abandon it,
but the judgment will turn to justice,
all the upright in heart will follow.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 11,25-27.
At that time Jesus said: «I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to the little ones.
Yes, Father, because you liked it that way.
Everything was given to me by my Father; nobody knows the Son except the Father, and nobody knows the Father except the Son and the one to whom the Son wants to reveal him ».