Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
give us grace to feed on you and delight in you today

¹ “Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters!
    Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat!
    Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
² Why do you spend money for that which is not bread,
    and your labour for that which doesn’t satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good,
    and let your soul delight…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to listen to your voice today and to bear witness to what we have heard.

³ Turn your ear, and come to me.
    Hear, and your soul will live.
    I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
⁴ Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples,
    a leader and commander to the peoples.
⁵ Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know;
 …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to seek you today and turn away from what is wrong

⁶ Seek Yahweh while he may be found.
    Call on him while he is near.
⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him,
    to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust in your provision today

⁸ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
⁹ “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways,
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.
¹⁰ For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky,
    and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth,
    and makes…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be full of joy and peace today

¹² For you shall go out with joy,
    and be led out with peace.
The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing;
    and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
¹³ Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up;
    and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up.
It will make a name for Yahweh,
    for an everlasting sign that will not…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to  do what is just and right today

¹ Yahweh says,

“Maintain justice
    and do what is right,
for my salvation is near
    and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
² Blessed is the man who does this,
    and the son of man who holds it fast;
who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it
    and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be gracious to those who aren’t married with children in the usual way, just as you are gracious 

³ Let no foreigner who has joined himself to Yahweh speak, saying,
    “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people.”
    Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

⁴ For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
    choose the things that please me,
    and hold…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to be joined to you today, serving you and loving you in all that we do.  

⁶ Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him,
and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it,
and holds fast my covenant,
⁷ I will bring these to my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer.

Heavenly Father
give us grace to have a larger heart for others today, so that there is room for foreigners and outcasts. 

^[the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh
    to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name]
⁷ Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar;
    for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
⁸ The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
    “I will yet…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to faithfully care for those we need to watch out for today. 

⁹ All you animals of the field, come to devour,
    all you animals in the forest.
¹⁰ His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge.
They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark — dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
¹¹ Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough.
They are shepherds who can’t understand.
  …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to see the futility of everything which is outside the kingdom of God.

¹ The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart.
⁴ Aren’t you children of disobedience
    and offspring of falsehood,
⁵ you who inflame yourselves among the oaks;   [giving worship to someone/thing that isn’t God]
who kill the children in the valleys                        [sacrificing precious people/…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be contrite and humble 

¹⁴ He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way!
    Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
¹⁵ For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,
    whose name is Holy, says:
“I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit,
    to revive the spirit of the humble,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to know when to let go of our anger, as you let go of yours. 

¹⁶ For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry;
    for the spirit would faint before me,
    and the souls whom I have made.
¹⁷ I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him.
    I hid myself and was angry;
    and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
…

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…

 ‘Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
 to loose the chains of injustice
 and untie the cords of the yoke,
 to set the oppressed free
 and break every yoke?
 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
 and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?’  Isaiah 58:6-11

Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the precious time…

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…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to act appropriately,
knowing when to challenge what is wrong
and when to be gracious to those who wrong us.  

¹⁸ According to their deeds,
    he will repay as appropriate,
    wrath to his adversaries,
    recompense to his enemies;
    he will repay the islands their due.
¹⁹ So they will fear Yahweh’s name from the west,
  …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to listen to and speak your words today 

²⁰ “A Redeemer will come to Zion,
    and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

²¹ “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh.
“My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth,
nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to allow your glory to be on us and in us so that others may live in your light

¹ “Arise, shine; for your light has come,
    and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
² For, behold, darkness will cover the earth,
    and thick darkness the peoples;
but Yahweh will arise on you,
    and his glory shall be seen on you.
³ Nations will come to your light,
    and kings to the brightness of…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to lift up our eyes today and perceive you present among us, so that our hearts may thrill and be enlarged with your grace, and proclaim your praises. 

⁴ “Lift up your eyes all around, and see:
    they all gather themselves together.
    They come to you.
Your sons will come from far away,
    and your daughters will be carried in arms.
⁵ Then you shall see and be radiant,
    and…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to have hope for the future

[Isaiah had a vision of things being put right in the future]

[There will be ample supply of animals required for temple sacrifice]

⁷ All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you.
    The rams of Nebaioth will serve you.
They will be accepted as offerings on my altar;
    and I will beautify my glorious house.

[The number of ships bringing the exiled sons home to Jerusalem will be so great that their sails…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in an open handed and open hearted way

[Isaiah, still in Exile, has hope for the future]

¹⁰ “Foreigners will build up your walls,       [which the Babylonians tore down]
    and their kings will serve you:
for in my wrath I struck you,       [and allowed the Babylonians to take the Jews into exile]
    but in my favour I have had mercy on you.    [Allowing the Jews to return]

[Isaiah, has a vision of…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to walk with you today and find joy in you

¹³ “The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet [i.e. the temple] glorious.
¹⁴ The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; [those who took the Jews into exile]
    and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet.
They will call you Yahweh’s City,
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to allow you to be our light, so that we are governed by peace and righteousness

¹⁷ For bronze I will bring gold;
    for iron I will bring silver;
    for wood, bronze,
    and for stones, iron.
I will also make peace your governor,
    and righteousness your ruler.
¹⁸ Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
    nor desolation or destruction within your borders…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be patient as we wait for your kingdom to come and your will to be done

²⁰ Your sun will not go down any more,
    nor will your moon withdraw itself;
for Yahweh will be your everlasting light,
    and the days of your mourning will end.
²¹ Then your people will all be righteous.
    They will inherit the land forever,
    the branch of my planting,
   …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to do this: 

¹ The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,
    because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble.
He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
    to proclaim liberty to the captives
    and release to those who are bound,
 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be a blessing to those who mourn and those who have a spirit of heaviness

^[The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me,
    because Yahweh has anointed me…]   
² to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favour
    and the day of vengeance of our God,
    to comfort all who mourn,
³ to provide for those who mourn in Zion,
    to give to them a garland for ashes,
  …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to fulfil our calling to be your servants. 

⁴ They will rebuild the old ruins.
    They will raise up the former devastated places.
They will repair the ruined cities
    that have been devastated for many generations.
⁵ Strangers will stand and feed your flocks.
    Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
⁶ But you will be called Yahweh’s priests.
    Men will…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to find joy in living faithfully in covenant relationship with you, doing what is Just. 

⁷ Instead of your shame you will have double.
    Instead of dishonour, they will rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they will possess double.
    Everlasting joy will be to them.
⁸ “For I, Yahweh, love justice.
    I hate robbery and iniquity.
I will give them their reward in truth
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be righteous in all that we do and say, so that our lives may praise you

¹⁰ I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh!
    My soul will be joyful in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
    He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
    as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
    and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
¹¹ For as the earth produces its bud,
 …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to seek first your kingdom and your righteousness

¹  For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace,
    and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
    and her salvation like a burning lamp.
² The nations will see your righteousness,
    and all kings your glory.
You will be called by a new name,
    which…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today tp call out to you in good times and in bad times

⁶ I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.
    They will never be silent day nor night.
You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
⁷     and give him no rest, until he establishes,
    and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.