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I was on a website Catholic org looking up daily readings. Full disclosure I have lost my faith and have not been to church in years. I had wanted to start going again but it is actually pretty intimidating. But anyway. I was looking up the daily readings since I am home and have time to explore my faith with the insanity of work and everything else being forced to a crawl.
When I looked at their readings mine weren’t even close.
They said Jeremiah 11:18-20 I don’t even have a 19 and 20. I looked up Psalm 7:2-3 and again not the same. Why is this? And even though my translation is clearly different should I still be reading the same readings?
 
I had this thought while reading your post! If you are wanting to come back to the faith, try a novena. In fact I would recommend doing a novena to St. Mary Magdeline and then pray the guardian angel prayer, because your guardian angel sees God everyday, and you can ask it to help you come back…idk just some thoughts.
 
If I remember correctly, then I think that the Greek(?) and Hebrew (?) numbering systems are different.

If it’s the Douay-Rheims version, it uses the Greek(?) system whilst newer ones use the Hebrew(?) system.
 
I had this thought while reading your post! If you are wanting to come back to the faith, try a novena
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I second the novena it’s worked for me as I’m now on my 7 month of coming back to the holy church after being away for 10 years
 
Is there a way to find out what numbers correlate to my bible. I’m using the New American Bible.
 
This is Jeremiah 11:18 on the website:

Yahweh informed me and I knew it; you then revealed their scheming to me.

This is it in mine:

I knew it because the LORD informed me; at that time you, O LORD, showed me their doings.
 
When I look on my local churches website it has the same Jeremiah 11:18 but still has 19 and 20 which is not in my bible.
 
We had a past thread on this.

The NAB moved those verses Jeremiah 11:19-23 to the middle of Jeremiah 12. See this old thread:
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Why did the New American Bible Omit these Verses from Jeremiah? Sacred Scripture
Hi, A friend pointed out a curious thing regarding yesterday’s reading from Jeremiah, chapter 11. The Mass reading was Jeremiah 11:18-20. When my friend went home to re-read the passage in her NAB, she saw that Chapter 11 actually ends at verse 18 in that Bible. Verses 18 through 23, are included in every other Bible she checked, including the RSV, Douay Rheims, Good News Bible, and the King James Bible. Does anyone know the valid reason for which the Bishops decided to omit these verses from…
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Currently, the US Catholic Church uses the NAB Revised Edition aka NABRE, which put the verses back at the end of Jeremiah 11.


Your NAB is not up to date with the NABRE, so it still has the verses in the middle of Jeremiah 12. I don’t know why the people who translated and revised the NAB moved them there; obviously it wasn’t a great decision since the next edition moved them back to the original location.
 
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That looks like the same verse but different translations.

Since Liturgiam authenticam was published, Yahweh isn’t generally used in English [Catholic] Bible translations.
 
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@catholic03 is right, this is the same verse in two different translations.

Psalm numbering differs in the Hebrew text and the Greek text of the Old Testament (Hebrew considers as two different psalms, 9 and 10, what Greeks considers a single one, 9). Traditionally, Catholic Bibles will have the Greek numbering, and Protestant Bibles the Hebrew one.

The discrepancy starts at Psalm 9 though, so that’s not the reason why you’re having weird results with Psalm 7. What I can think of is that sometimes, websites giving Bible verse tend to omit the introduction of a psalm (its first or first two verse(s), saying something like “From David, on string instruments”) and start numbering verses from where the text actually begins.
 
If you want to find the day readings you can download an app for your smartphone called iBreviary from the repository.
Or you can go to their webpage https://www.ibreviary.com to view it online.
The app support multiple languages.
Hope this helps you.
Peace!
 
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