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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – 2 Chronicles 23:1-7 Stay close to the king
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU2 CHRONICLES 23:1-7 Click to listen to this devotion. We return now to the days of the divided kingdom. It was nearly one hundred years since the death of King Solomon, and six kings had followed David’s son on the throne of Judah. The sixth of those kings, Ahaziah, only reigned for […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 5:21-22 The three crosses
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 5:21-22 Click to listen to this devotion. 21 Restore us to yourself, O LORD, so that we may be restored!Renew our days as long ago–22 unless you have utterly rejected usand you remain angry with us beyond measure. Lamentations ends with this prayer for the Lord to restore his people. Since […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 5:20 The tomb
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 5:20 Click to listen to this devotion. 20 Why do you forget us for so long?Why do you forsake us for so many days? With this verse, we see the anguish of the exiles. We also see our own anguish when our crosses become difficult, and threaten to be too much […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 5:19 forever and ever, without end
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 5:19 Click to listen to this devotion. 19 You, O LORD, live forever.Your throne endures from generation to generation. Verses 19-22 are a closing prayer. We will consider the prayer in its three pieces, but here it will be good to meditate only on the text of this single verse, which […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 5:17-18 jackals prowling
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 5:17-18 Click here to listen 17 Our hearts are sick about it.It’s because of these things that our eyes grow dim18 for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,with jackals prowling over it. For most of the chapter, the prophet has been relating in terse poetic lines that Jerusalem is devastated. The people, […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 5:14-16 We have sinned
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 5:14-16 Click to listen to this devotion. 14 The elders are no longer at the city gate.The young men no longer play music.15 The joy of our hearts is gone;our dancing has turned to mourning.16 The crown has fallen from our head.Woe to us, for we have sinned! The prophet continues […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 5:11-13 Princes hang by their hands
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 5:11-13 Click to listen to this devotion. 11 Women in Zion have been violated,and virgins in the cities of Judah.12 Princes hang by their hands;elders are dishonored to their faces.13 Young men grind at the millstones;boys stagger under loads of wood. The main theme of this final chapter is the helplessness […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 5:8-10 hot as an oven
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 5:8-10 Click to listen to this devotion. 8 Slaves rule over usand there is no one to rescue us from their hands.9 We get our bread at the risk of our livesbecause of the sword in the desert.10 Our skin is hot as an ovenand we are feverish from hunger. The […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 5:5-7 He bore our guilt
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 5:5-7 Click to listen to this devotion. 5 Those who pursue us are at our throat.We are weary and we find no rest.6 We bargained with Egypt and Assyriato get enough bread.7 Our fathers sinned and are no more,and we bear their guilt. When we, suffering under what I have been […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 4:20 The Lord’s Anointed One
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 4:20 Click to listen to this devotion. 20 The very breath of our life,the LORD’s Anointed One,was taken to the grave,We said about him:“Under his shadow we shall liveamong the nations.” The last anointed King of Judah was Zedekiah, who was twenty-one when he was set on the throne of Solomon. […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 5:1-4 Only at a price
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 5:1-4 Click to listen to this devotion. Chapter five is different from the others. First, it is quite a bit shorter because the verses themselves are shorter with fewer words. There are still 22 verses, in line with the Hebrew alphabet, but the chapter is not an acrostic poem. One theory […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 4:21-22 It is finished
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 4:21-22 Click to listen to this devotion. A devotion on Lamentations 4:20 will be sent on Palm Sunday 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,you who live in the land of Uz.A cup will also be passed to you.You will become drunkand you will strip yourself naked.22 O daughter […]
