Daily Bible Verses by Book

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be careful and wise in what we trust today, particularly being wary of what makes us comfortable. 

⁸ ‘Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure, lounging in your security
and saying to yourself,  “I am, and there is none besides me.
¹⁰ You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, “No one sees me.”
Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you
¹¹ Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away.
a catastrophe you cannot foresee...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to listen to your voice today, and grace to rely on you as citizens of the kingdom of heaven, in truth and righteousness

 ¹ “Hear this, house of Jacob,
    you who are called by the name of Israel,
    and have come out of the waters of Judah.
You swear by Yahweh’s name,
    and make mention of the God of Israel,
    but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
² ...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be guided by you today, whether the guidance is from of old, or whether it is from today.

[God revealing things in advance]

⁴ Because I knew that you are obstinate;
⁵ therefore I have declared it to you from of old;
    before it came to pass I showed it to you;
    lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them.
    My engraved image and my molten image has commanded them.’
⁶ You have heard it.
  ...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be merciful today, particularly in difficult circumstances

⁹ For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger,
    and for my praise, I hold it back for you
    so that I don’t cut you off.
¹⁰ Behold, I have refined you,
    but not as silver.
    I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
¹¹ For my own sake,
    for my own sake, I will do...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to hear your eternal voice today.

¹² “Listen to me, O Jacob,
    and Israel my called:
I am he.
    I am the first.
    I am also the last.
¹³ Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
    and my right hand has spread out the heavens.
    when I call to them, they stand up together.

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust that your purposes are being worked out in our world (just as they were when the Chaldeans in Babylon who had taken Israel into exile were defeated by Cyrus who then permitted Israel to return from exile)

¹⁴ “Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear!
    Who among them has declared these things?
He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon,
    and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
¹⁵ I, even I, have spoken.
...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be obedient to you today so that we may live in peace and righteousness

¹⁷ Yahweh,
    your Redeemer,
    the Holy One of Israel says:
“I am Yahweh your God,
    who teaches you to profit,
    who leads you by the way that you should go.
¹⁸ Oh that you had listened to my commandments!
    Then your peace would have been like a river
    and your...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to open our hearts to you today so that we may live in peace

²⁰ Leave Babylon!  [The place where Israel went into exile]
    Flee from the Chaldeans!  [The new power who will return Israel to their own land]
With a voice of singing announce this,
    tell it even to the end of the earth:
    say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
²¹ They didn’t thirst when he led them through the deserts.  [Remembering back to when...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to live in the knowledge that our pasts, our presents and our futures are in you.

¹ Listen, islands, to me.
    Listen, you peoples, from afar:
Yahweh has called me from the womb;
    from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.
² He has made my mouth like a sharp sword.
    He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
He has made me a polished shaft.
    He has kept me close in his...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to live as Jesus did- finding strength in you and being a blessing to others

⁵ Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
    says to bring Jacob again to him,
    and to gather Israel to him,
    for I am honourable in Yahweh’s eyes,
    and my God has become my strength.
⁶ Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
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