Archive for January 2022

Lk. 15:28‭-‬32 But [the older son] was angry and would not go in.  Therefore, his father came out and pleaded with him. So he answered and said to his father, “Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young…

1 Sam. 17:23‭-‬25 Then as he talked with them, there was the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines; and he spoke according to the same words.  So David heard them. And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and…

Jon. 4:6‭-‬11 And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery.  So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.  But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm, and it so damaged the plant…

Mt. 26:44‭-‬46 So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then He came to His disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let…

Lam. 5:19‭-‬22 You, O Lord, remain forever; Your throne from generation to generation.  Why do You forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?  Turn us back to You, O Lord, and we will be restored; renew our days as of old, unless You have utterly rejected us, and are very angry…

Lam. 5:1‭-‬3 Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; look, and behold our reproach!  Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, and our houses to foreigners.  We have become orphans and waifs, our mothers are like widows. When she was little, she had followed her parents’ instructions faithfully, but she grew out of…

Lam. 4:1‭-‬2 How the gold has become dim!  How changed the fine gold!  The stones of the sanctuary are scattered at the head of every street.  The precious sons of Zion, valuable as fine gold, how they are regarded as clay pots, the work of the hands of the potter! I had built my life…

Lam. 3:48‭-‬50 My eyes overflow with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.  My eyes flow and do not cease, without interruption, until the Lord from heaven looks down and sees. She was not in an uncommon position for many, but it certainly was unusual for her.  One thing began…