Daily Bible Verses by Book

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. 
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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.

1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. 2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

3 The voice of one who calls out,
    “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!…

Heavenly father
give us grace to wait for you, so that by waiting for you we find strength

²⁸ Haven’t you known?
    Haven’t you heard?
    The everlasting God, Yahweh,
    the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint.
    He isn’t weary.
    His understanding is unsearchable.
²⁹ He gives power to the weak.
    He increases the strength of him…

    but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.
    They will mount up with wings like eagles.
    They will run, and not be weary.
    They will walk, and not faint.

“Keep silent before me, islands,
    and let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come near,
    then let them speak.
    Let’s meet together for judgment.
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