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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 4:9 (and 10) Famine
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 4:9 (and 10) Click to listen to this devotion. The subject matter of verse 10 may be disturbing to some readers or listeners. For this reason, the comments about that verse will not be included in the audio version, but will only be an addition to this devotion for reference or […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 4:7-8 evidence of our faith
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 4:7-8 Click to listen to this devotion. 7 Their princes were brighter than snowand whiter than milk,their bodies more ruddy than rubies,their appearance like sapphires.8 But now they have become dark and black;they are not recognized in the streets.Their skin has shriveled on their bones;it has become as dry as a […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 4:6 The hand of God
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 4:6 Click to listen to this devotion. 6 The punishment of the daughter of my peopleis greater than the sin of Sodom,which was overthrown in a momentwithout a hand to support her. How could anything be a worse punishment than what was done to Sodom? Before we answer that, we should […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 4:4-5 The roof of the mouth
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 4:4-5 Click to listen to this devotion. 4 Because of thirst the baby’s tonguesticks to the roof of its mouth.Children ask for breadbut no one gives them any.5 Those who once ate tasty treatsare deserted in the streets.Those who were nurtured in purplenow embrace only ash heaps. The cross of the […]
God’s Word for You – Lamentations 4:3 Like cruel ostriches
GOD’S WORD FOR YOULAMENTATIONS 4:3 Click to listen to this devotion. 3 Even jackals offer their breaststo nurse their young,but the daughters of my people have become cruellike ostriches in the desert. In the first verses of this chapter, the prophet lamented the diminishing of the young men of Judah, as if they were something […]
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 […]
