Showing posts with label Jeremiah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeremiah. Show all posts

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Jeremiah 7:23-28.

Thus says the LORD: This is what I commanded my people: Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk in all the ways that I command you, so that you may prosper. 
But they obeyed not, nor did they pay heed. They walked in the hardness of their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me. 
From the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to this day, I have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets. 
Yet they have not obeyed me nor paid heed; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their fathers. 
When you speak all these words to them, they will not listen to you either; when you call to them, they will not answer you. 
Say to them: This is the nation which does not listen to the voice of the LORD, its God, or take correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the word itself is banished from their speech. 



Psalms 95(94):1-2.6-7.8-9. 

Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD; 
let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation. 
Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; 
let us joyfully sing psalms to him. 

Come, let us bow down in worship; 
let us kneel before the LORD who made us. 
For he is our God, 
and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides. 

“Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, 
as in the day of Massah in the desert, 
Where your fathers tempted me; 
they tested me though they had seen my works.”


Thursday, March 5, 2015

Thus says the LORD: Book of Jeremiah 17:5-10.


Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings, who seeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the LORD. 
He is like a barren bush in the desert that enjoys no change of season, But stands in a lava waste, a salt and empty earth. 
Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose hope is the LORD. 
He is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream: It fears not the heat when it comes, its leaves stay green; In the year of drought it shows no distress, but still bears fruit. 
More tortuous than all else is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it? 
I, the LORD, alone probe the mind and test the heart, To reward everyone according to his ways, according to the merit of his deeds. 



Psalms 1:1-2.3.4.6. 


Blessed the man who follows not 
the counsel of the wicked 
Nor walks in the way of sinners, 
nor sits in the company of the insolent, 
But delights in the law of the LORD 
and meditates on his law day and night.

He is like a tree 
planted near running water, 
that yields its fruit in due season, 
and whose leaves never fade. 
Whatever he does, prospers. 

Not so, the wicked, not so; 
they are like chaff which the wind drives away. 
For the LORD watches over the way of the just, 
but the way of the wicked vanishes. 


Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Heed me, O LORD, and listen to what my adversaries say(Jeremiah 18:18-20)

The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem said, "Come, let us contrive a plot against Jeremiah. It will not mean the loss of instruction from the priests, nor of counsel from the wise, nor of messages from the prophets. And so, let us destroy him by his own tongue; let us carefully note his every word." 
Heed me, O LORD, and listen to what my adversaries say. 
Must good be repaid with evil that they should dig a pit to take my life? Remember that I stood before you to speak in their behalf, to turn away your wrath from them. 


Psalms 31(30):5-6.14.15-16. 

You will free me from the snare they set for me, 
for you are my refuge. 
Into your hands I commend my spirit; 
You will redeem me, O LORD, O faithful God. 

I hear the whispers of the crowd, that frighten me from every side, 
as they consult together against me, plotting to take my life. 

But my trust is in you, O LORD; 
I say, "You are my God. 
In your hands is my destiny; rescue me 

from the clutches of my enemies and my persecutors."