Daily Bible Verses by Book

³⁴ When he killed them, then they inquired after him.
    They returned and sought God earnestly.
³⁵ They remembered that God was their rock,
    the Most High God, their redeemer.
³⁶ But they flattered him with their mouth,
    and lied to him with their tongue.
³⁷ For their heart was not right with him,
    neither were they faithful in his covenant.
³⁸ But he,…

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,
    and grieved him in the desert!
⁴¹ They turned again and tempted God,
    and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They didn’t remember his hand,
    nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

⁴³ how he set his signs in Egypt: ⁴⁴ blood, ⁴⁵ flies, frogs, ⁴⁶ locust, …

[Book of Joshua]

⁵⁴ He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
    to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.  
⁵⁵ He also drove out the nations before them,
    allotted them for an inheritance by line,             
    and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

[Books of 1 and 2 Kings, particularly]

⁵⁶ Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,
…

[The Northern Kingdom Israel abandoned God and went into exile]

⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
    and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
⁵⁹ When God heard this, he was angry,
    and greatly abhorred Israel,
⁶⁰ so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,
    the tent which he placed among men,
⁶¹ and delivered his strength into captivity,
    his glory into…

¹ God, the nations have come into your inheritance.
    They have defiled your holy temple.
    They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
² They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,
    the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
³ They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.
    There was no one to bury them.
⁴ We have become a reproach to our neighbours,
…

⁸ Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.
    Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,
    for we are in desperate need.
⁹ Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.
    Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
¹⁰ Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
    Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes,
    that vengeance for your servants’ blood is…

¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.
    According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
¹² Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom
    their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
¹³ So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,
    will give you thanks forever.
    We will praise you forever, to all generations.

¹ Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,
    you who lead Joseph like a flock,
    you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might!
    Come to save us!
³ Turn us again, God.
    Cause your face to shine,
    and we will be saved.

⁴ Yahweh God of Armies,
    how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears,
    and given them tears to drink in large measure.
⁶ You make us a source of contention to our neighbours.
    Our enemies laugh among themselves.
⁷ Turn us again, God of Armies.
    Cause your face to shine,
    and we will be saved.

[Exodus]
⁸ You brought a vine out of Egypt. 
[Joshua]
    You drove out the nations, and planted it. 
⁹ You cleared the ground for it.
[King David]
    It took deep root, and filled the land.
¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shadow.
    Its boughs were like God’s cedars.
¹¹ It sent out its branches to the sea,
    its shoots to the River.
[Fall of Jerusalem in 2 Kings]
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