Because you did not remember the days of your childhood and you made me angry with all of these. And in turn I, look, I will return your way upon your head,’ ?declares? the Lord Yahweh, ‘and did you not do wickedness in addition to all of your detestable things? 44 Look! Everyone quoting a proverb against you, he will quote, ?saying?, ‘Like her mother is her daughter!’ 45 You are a daughter of your mother who abhorred her husband and her children, and you are a sister of your sisters who abhorred their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite…
+ DAILY PRAYER +
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy!
In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan,
and he hears my voice.
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you;
He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 144:3-10
Psa 144:3 O LORD, what is man that you regard him,
or the son of man that you think of him?
Psa 144:4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
Psa 144:5 Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down!
Touch the mountains so that they smoke!
Psa 144:6 Flash forth the lightning and scatter them;
send out your arrows and rout them!
Psa 144:7 Stretch out your hand from on high;
rescue me and deliver me from the many waters,
from the hand of foreigners,
Psa 144:8 whose mouths speak lies
and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Psa 144:9 I will sing a new song to you, O God;
upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,
Psa 144:10 who gives victory to kings,
who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.
Reading for Friday August 7th Ezekiel 16:43-63
43 ?Because? you did not remember the days of your childhood and you made me angry with all of these. And in turn I, look, I will return your way upon your head,’ ?declares? the Lord Yahweh, ‘and did you not do wickedness in addition to all of your detestable things? 44 Look! Everyone quoting a proverb against you, he will quote, ?saying?, ‘Like her mother is her daughter!’ 45 You are a daughter of your mother who abhorred her husband and her children, and you are a sister of your sisters who abhorred their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite. 46 And your elder sister, she is Samaria, and her daughters, who are dwelling on your north, and your younger sister is the one dwelling on your south; she is Sodom and her daughters. 47 And you have not only gone in their ways, but you also did according to their detestable things. ?In such a short time? you behaved more corruptly than they in all of your ways. 48 ?As surely as I live?,’ ?declares? the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do as you and your daughters did. 49 Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, abundance of food, and ?prosperous ease? was to her and to her daughters, and ?she did not sustain the needy and the poor?. 50 And they were proud, and they did a detestable thing ?before me?, and I removed them ?because? I saw it. 51 And Samaria did not sin ?according to even half of your sins?, and you caused your detestable things to increase more than they, and you made your sister righteous in comparison with all of your detestable things that you did. 52 Also, you bear your disgrace, by which you furnished justification to your sisters through your sins by which you acted more abominably than they; they were more righteous than you, and also, you be ashamed and bear your disgrace through your making your sister righteous.
53 And I will restore their fortune, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and even the fortunes of your captivity in the midst of them, 54 in order that you may bear your disgrace and you may be put to shame because of all that you did at your consoling them. 55 And as for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state. 56 And was not Sodom, your sister, a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride 57 ?before? your evil was uncovered? It was like the time of the scorn of the daughters of Aram and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who are despising you. 58 Your wickedness and your detestable things, you, you must bear them,’ ?declares? Yahweh. 59 ‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: And I will do it to you ?according to what you have done?, who despised the oath to break covenant. 60 And I, I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you ?an everlasting covenant?. 61 And you will remember your ways, and you will be ashamed when you take your sisters, ?both the older and the younger?, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of your covenant. 62 And I, I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am Yahweh, 63 in order that you will remember, and you will be ashamed, and ?you will not open your mouth again? ?because of? your disgrace when I forgive you for all that you have done!’ ” ?declares? the Lord Yahweh.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
O God, whose infinite love restores to the right way those who err, gathers the scattered, and preserves those whom You have gathered, of Your tender mercy pour out on Your Christian people the grace of unity that, all schisms being healed, Your flock, gathered to the true Shepherd of Your Church, may serve You in all faithfulness; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Concluding Prayer
Heavenly Father, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts to direct and rule us to do Your will, to comfort us in all our afflictions, to defend us from all error, and to lead us into all truth; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
