4 April
Psalm 119:130 The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
Isaiah 28:10-12; 32:2-4 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.’ Truly, with stammering lip and with alien tongue he will speak to this people, to whom he has said, ‘This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose’; yet they would not hear. Each will be like a hiding-place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land. Then the eyes of those who have sight will not be closed, and the ears of those who have hearing will listen. The minds of the rash will have good judgement, and the tongues of stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.
Hebrews 11:8-9, 13 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. They confessed that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth
These scripture readings relate to the Eata Readings (Exiles) in Celtic Daily Prayer, volume 2