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Daily Devotion Archive
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 […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:39-40 test and examine our ways
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:39-40 Click to listen to this devotion. 39 What should a living man complain about–a mere man about the punishment of his sin?40 Let us test and examine our ways,and return to the LORD. Repentance had two parts. The sinner is led to recognize his sin through the word of God […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:37-38 both adversity and good
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:37-38 Click to listen to this devotion. 37 Who has spoken and had it happen,unless the Lord commanded it?38 Do not both adversity and goodcome from the mouth of the Most High? Verse 38 opens the door to the problem of evil. If God is good, where did evil come from? […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:34-36 Injustice
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:34-36 Click to listen to this devotion. 34 To crush all the prisoners of the earth under foot,35 to deny the right a man has in the very presenceof the Most High,36 to undermine a man in his cause–the Lord does not approve of these things. These verses are all about […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:33 not because his Father hated him
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:33 Click to listen to this devotion. 33 For he does not willingly afflictor cause grief to the sons of men. The Jews struggling under the first cross understood– or at least this prophet understood– that the Lord God is not delighted when he brings suffering or strife to people. Even […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:32 Grief, compassion, and mercy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:32 Click to listen to this devotion. 32 Although he brings grief, he will show compassion–so great is his mercy. This verse shows that among at least some of the exiles, there was still faith, or that faith had been rekindled in their hearts. Consider those who were not in Babylon– […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:31 Not rejected forever
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:31 Click to listen to this devotion. 31 For we are not rejected by the Lord forever. Those who carried the cross of the Jewish exiles looked forward to the second cross of Christ, even though they did not know it would be a cross. They had the promise of God […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 3:28-30 Let him offer his cheek
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 3:28-30 Click to listen to this devotion. 28 Let him sit alone and be silentsince the LORD has laid this on him.29 Let him bury his face in the dust.Perhaps there is still hope.30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him,and let him have his fill of […]
