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Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Psalm 127:1
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. Psalm 127:1
Daily Meditation
21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
Today’s Reading
Jeremiah 15
Rejoicing Of Mine
Heart
1 Then said the Lord
unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be
toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. 2 And it
shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou
shalt tell them, Thus saith the Lord; Such as are for death, to death; and such
as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the
famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity. 3 And I will
appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs
to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour
and destroy. 4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the
earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he
did in Jerusalem. 5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who
shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? 6 Thou hast
forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch
out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. 7 And I
will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of
children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways. 8
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought
upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have
caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city. 9 She that hath
borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down
while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of
them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the Lord.
10 Woe is me, my
mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the
whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury;
yet every one of them doth curse me. 11 The Lord said, Verily it shall be well
with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the
time of evil and in the time of affliction. 12 Shall iron break the northern iron
and the steel? 13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. 14 And I
will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not:
for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
15 O Lord, thou
knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me
not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and
rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. 17 I
sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of
thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain
perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be
altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
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