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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 4:1-2 Tarnish and rust
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 4:1-2 Click to listen to this devotion. In the fourth chapter, the poetic verses get shorter once again. Each single verse is headed up by successive letters of the alphabet. Also, our prophet once again begins the chapter with the word “How!” as he did in chapters 1 and 2, and […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:64-66 the place of torment
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:64-66 Click to listen to this devotion. 64 You will pay them back, O LORD,for what their hands have done.65 You will put a covering on their heart,a curse on them!66 You will pursue them in angerand destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD. The prayer and the chapter […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:61-63 their mocking song
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:61-63 Click to listen to this devotion. 61 O LORD, you have heard their taunts,all their plots against me.62 Their lips rise up and plot against meall day long.63 They do this sitting, they do this standing–Look! I am the subject of their mocking song. In this book, as in any […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:59-60 The Via Dolorosa
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:59-60 Click to listen to this devotion. 59 You have seen how I was wronged, O LORD.Judge my case.60 You saw all their vindictiveness,all their plots against me. The first cross we consider when reading Lamentations is the cross of the book’s context, the suffering of the Jews in the Babylonian […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:58 He redeemed your life
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:58 Click to listen to this devotion. 58 You pleaded my soul’s case, O Lord,you redeemed my life. This is an interesting verse in the Hebrew language, but the most important word to point out is “redeemed.” This is the word ga’al, which as a noun would be go’el, a word […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:57 Do not fear
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:57 Click to listen to this devotion. 57 You came near the day I called to you,and you said, “Do not fear.” This verse fits neatly with the general consensus that Jeremiah wrote Lamentations, since this is what God told Jeremiah when he called him to prophesy (Jeremiah 1:8), and many […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:55-56 my relief, my cry for help
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:55-56 Click to listen to this devotion. 55 I called on your name, O LORD,from the depths of the pit;56 you heard my voice:‘Do not close your ear to my relief, my cry for help.’ Here in the prayer from Babylon, the prophet and poet reminds God that he has been […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:52-54 σῴζω
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:52-54 Click to listen to this devotion. 52 They have surely hunted me like a bird–they are my enemies for no reason.53 They ended my life in the pit and threw stones at me.54 Water flowed over my head, and I said, “I am cut off.” To be persecuted by people […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:49-51 until the LORD looks down
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:49-51 Click to listen to this devotion. 49 My eyes run without stopping. They will not stop50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.51 My eyes afflict my heartbecause of all the young women in my city. The prophet talks like a man of our century, the typical father […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:46-48 Panic, pit, devastation and broken bones
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:46-48 Click to listen to this devotion. 46 “All our enemies open their mouths against us;47 panic and pit have come upon us,devastation and broken bones;48 rivers of tears flow from my eyesbecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people. The prayer of the exiles continues: Their enemies “open […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:43-45 scum and garbage
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:43-45 Click to listen to this devotion. 43 “You wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,killing without pity.44 You wrapped yourself with a cloudso that prayer passes you by.45 You have made us scum and garbageamong the peoples. Here God is shown wrapping himself up in two ways: With anger, and […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:41-42 Hearts and hands to God
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:41-42 Click to listen to this devotion. 41 Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:42 We sinned and we rebelled,and you have not forgiven. This is the beginning of a prayer. Lifting up one’s hands was a frequently used posture for prayer in Bible times (1 […]
