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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 30, 2021 – Lamentations 005
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+005 Lamentations 5 (ESV) 15 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning. 16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! 17 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim, 18 for Mount Zion which lies…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 29, 2021 – Lamentations 004
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+004 Lamentations 4 (ESV) 11 The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations. 12 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 28, 2021 – Lamentations 003
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+003 Lamentations 3 (ESV) 19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! 20 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. 21 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: 22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 27, 2021 – Lamentations 002
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+002 Lamentations 2 (ESV) 11 My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city. 12 They cry to their mothers, “Where is…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 26, 2021 – Lamentations 001
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Lamentations+001 LAMENTATIONS INTRODUCTION When the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem and deported much of its population, some residents were left behind in terrible conditions in and around the shattered city. To express their deep shame and grief over the destruction of their home, they wrote songs about its…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 23, 2021 – Jeremiah 052
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+052 Jeremiah 52 (ESV) 28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 22, 2021 – Jeremiah 051
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+051 Jeremiah 51 (ESV) 59 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster. 60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 21, 2021 – Jeremiah 050
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+050 Jeremiah 50 (ESV) 17 “Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones. 18 Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 20, 2021 – Jeremiah 049
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+049 Jeremiah 49 (ESV) 1 Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities? 2 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the…
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“Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Jul 19, 2021 – Jeremiah 048
Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+048 Jeremiah 48 (ESV) 1 Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down; 2 the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster…