Daily Bible Verses by Book

Heavenly father
give us grace to draw on your strength in good times as well as bad, so that you may be our song and salvation today and everyday, for ever.

¹ In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. 
² Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.” 
³ Therefore with joy you...

Heavenly father
give us grace to walk humbly before you so that we will not be destroyed in our pride and arrogance.

⁴ Yahweh of Armies is mustering an army, ⁵  the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.   ⁶ For Yahweh’s day is at hand!  ⁷ Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.  . ⁹ Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of...

Heavenly father
give us grace to cling on to hope in the face of sorrow, trouble and oppression.
give us grace to turn away from arrogance and from anything which puts down others.

¹ Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. ² The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place....

Heavenly father, when we are afflicted give us grace to be a blessing to those who are poor, needy and afflicted.

²⁸ This burden was in the year that king Ahaz (of Judah) died (in whose reign Philistia had oppressed parts of Judah)
²⁹ Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. ³⁰ The...

Heavenly father

give us grace to have compassion for those who are suffering as a result of their own sins
give us grace to repent of our own pride - pride which leads to oppression and wrath.

^15:1 In a night, Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.
⁵ My heart cries out for Moab!

^16:3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive! 
⁴  For the extortionist is brought to nothing. The oppressors are consumed out of the land. 

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Heavenly father
give us grace to turn to you for strength and worship you alone

¹⁰ Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength.
⁹ your strong cities will be a desolation.  and ¹¹ you will have a harvest of grief and of desperate sorrow.

⁷ In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. 
^8...

Heavenly father
give us grace to wait for your kingdom to come, for your will be done. 

¹ A message for the land of Ethiopia; ² that sends ambassadors Egypt (to join forces against Assyria)” :
³ All you inhabitants of the world, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!
⁴ Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling...

Heavenly father
give us grace in the face of civil unrest, international catastrophe and natural disaster, to have hope for a day of blessing, when all people (Egypt, Assyria and Israel) will be blessed

¹  “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it. 
² I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother and his neighbour;
^4 ...

He will swallow up death forever.

The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
    from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
    from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.
Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
Trust in the Lord for ever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.