Catholic Daily Reading 10th July 2012

"Hos 8:4  They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.
Hos 8:5  Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?
Hos 8:6  For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and it is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.
Hos 8:7  For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.
Hos 8:11  Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.
Hos 8:12  I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.
Hos 8:13  They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt."
Hosea 8:4-7,11-13

"Psa 115:3  But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would.
Psa 115:4  The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men.
Psa 115:5  They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.
Psa 115:6  They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not.
Psa 115:7  They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat.
Psa 115:8  Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.
Psa 115:9  The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.
Psa 115:10  The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector."
Psalms 115:3-4,5-6,7-8,9-10

"Mat 9:32  And when they were gone out, behold they brought him a dumb man, possessed with a devil.
Mat 9:33  And after the devil was cast out, the dumb man spoke, and the multitudes wondered, saying, Never was the like seen in Israel.
Mat 9:34  But the Pharisees said, By the prince of devils he casteth out devils.
Mat 9:35  And Jesus went about all the cities and towns, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease, and every infirmity.
Mat 9:36  And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd.
Mat 9:37  Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few.
Mat 9:38  Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest."
Matthew 9:32-38