Wednesday, August 4, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Numbers 13:2-3, 26-34; 14:1, 26-29, 34-35

^13:2And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ³Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.

²⁶And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country, ²⁷And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land: ²⁸And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits: ²⁹But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac. ³⁰Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the Jordan. ³¹In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer it. ³²But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this people, because they are stronger than we. ³³And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld, are of a tall stature. ³⁴There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.

^14:1Wherefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.

²⁶And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: ²⁷How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. ²⁸Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you. ²⁹In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,

³⁴According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge: ³⁵For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 105:6-7, 13-14, 21-23 (Psalm 106 at Mass)

⁶We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity. ⁷Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

¹³They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsels. ¹⁴And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

²¹They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt, ²²Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea. ²³And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 15:21-28

²¹And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. ²²And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grieviously troubled by the devil. ²³Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us: ²⁴And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house of Israel. ²⁵But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me. ²⁶Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs. ²⁷But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters. ²⁸Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.