Daily Bible Verses by Book

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to have a contrite and humble spirit so that we may have peace in our hearts, and may be a channel of peace to those who are far off, and to those who are near. 

¹⁸ I have seen his ways, and will heal him.   [who is of a contrite and humble spirit, from verse 15]
    I will lead him also,
    and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
¹⁹ I create the fruit of the lips:
    Peace, peace, to him who is far off...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be humble and become aware of any disobedience in ourselves so that our sin may be burnt away and become like ash.  

¹ “Cry aloud! Don’t spare!
    Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Declare to my people their disobedience,
    and to the house of Jacob their sins.
² Yet they seek me daily,
    and delight to know my ways.
As a nation that did righteousness,
   ...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to give to those in need and to work towards freeing the oppressed

⁶ “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen:
    to release the bonds of wickedness,
    to undo the straps of the yoke,
    to let the oppressed go free,
    and that you break every yoke?
⁷ Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry,
    and that you bring the poor who are cast out to...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to turn away from looking down on others, and put our hearts into caring for others

⁹ “If you take away from among you the yoke,
    finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
¹⁰ and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
    and satisfy the afflicted soul,
then your light will rise in darkness,
    and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to pour out our souls to those in need

¹⁰ if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
    and satisfy the afflicted soul,
¹¹ Yahweh will guide you continually,
    satisfy your soul in dry places,
    and make your bones strong.
You will be like a watered garden,
    and like a spring of water
    whose waters don’t fail.
¹² Those who will be of you will build the old...

Heavenly Father
give us grace this weekend to delight in you as we take our rest

¹³ “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
    from doing your pleasure on my holy day;
and call the Sabbath a delight,
    and the holy of Yahweh honourable;
    and honour it,
    not doing your own ways,
    nor finding your own pleasure,
    nor speaking your own words,
¹⁴ then you will delight...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to speak the truth, and seek after it.

¹ Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save;
    nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
² But your iniquities have separated you and your God,
    and your sins have hidden his face from you,
    so that he will not hear.
³ For your hands are defiled with blood,
    and your fingers with iniquity.
Your lips have spoken lies....

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to follow the way of peace and turn away from evil, particularly in our thoughts. 

⁷ Their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
    Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
⁸ They don’t know the way of peace;
    and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made crooked paths for themselves;
    whoever goes in them...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to speak truthfully and act with justice

¹¹ We all roar like bears
    and moan bitterly like doves.
We look for justice, but there is none,
    for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹² For our sins testify against us;
    and our transgressions are with us,
¹³ transgressing and denying Yahweh,
    and turning away from following our God,
    speaking oppression and...

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to put on righteousness and salvation, particularly in the face of untruths. 

¹⁵ Yes, truth is lacking;
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

Yahweh saw it,
    and it displeased him that there was no justice.
¹⁶ He saw that there was no man,
    and wondered that there was no intercessor.
Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;
    and his righteousness...