Yahweh Frees Israel “Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, ?whom I called?: I am he. I am the first; also I am the last. 13 Indeed, my hand founded the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand in position together. 14 Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them declared these things? Yahweh loves him…
+ 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 38:1-3, 6. 9-11, 21-22
Psa 38:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath!
Psa 38:2 For your arrows have sunk into me,
and your hand has come down on me.
Psa 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones
because of my sin.
Psa 38:6 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all the day I go about mourning.
Psa 38:9 O Lord, all my longing is before you;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
Psa 38:10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
Psa 38:11 My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
and my nearest kin stand far off.
Psa 38:21 Do not forsake me, O LORD!
O my God, be not far from me!
Psa 38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!
Reading for Tuesday February 10th Isaiah 48:12-49:7
Yahweh Frees Israel
12 “Listen to me, Jacob,
and Israel, ?whom I called?:
I am he. I am the first;
also I am the last.
13 Indeed, my hand founded the earth,
and my right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summon them, they stand in position together.
14 Assemble, all of you, and hear!
Who among them declared these things?
Yahweh loves him;
he shall perform his wish against Babylon
and his arm against ?the Chaldeans?.
15 I, I myself, I have spoken!
Indeed, I have called him.
I have brought him,
and he will be successful in his way.
16 Draw near to me; hear this! I have not spoken in secrecy from the ?beginning?;
from the time ?it came to be?, there I have been;
And now the Lord Yahweh has sent me and his Spirit.”
17 Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel:
“I am Yahweh your God, ?who teaches? you to profit,
leads you in the way you should go.
18 O that you had listened attentively to my commandments!
Then your prosperity would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 And your offspring would have been like the sand,
and the descendants of your ?body? like its grains.
It would not be cut off,
and its name would not be destroyed from my presence.”
20 Go out from Babylon!
Flee from Chaldea!
Proclaim it with a shout of rejoicing; proclaim this!
?Send it forth? to the end of the earth;
say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
21 And when he led them through the deserts, they were not thirsty;
he made water flow from the rock for them,
and he split the rock,
and the water gushed out.
22 “There is no peace,” says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”
Yahweh’s Servant Brings Salvation
49 Listen to me, coastlands,
and listen attentively, peoples from far away!
Yahweh called me from the womb;
from the ?body? of my mother he made my name known.
2 And he ?made? my mouth like a sharp sword;
he hid me in the shadow of his hand,
and he ?made? me like a sharpened arrow;
he hid me in his quiver.
3 And he said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will show my glory.”
4 But I myself said, “I have labored in vain;
I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity!
Nevertheless, my justice is with Yahweh,
and my reward is with my God.”
5 And now Yahweh says,
who formed me from the womb as a servant for him,
to bring Jacob back to him,
and that Israel might not be gathered,
for I am honored in the eyes of Yahweh,
and my God has become my strength.
6 And he says, “It is trivial ?for you to be? a servant for me,
to raise up the tribes of Jacob
and to bring back the preserved of Israel.
I will give you as a light to the nations,
to be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
7 Thus says Yahweh, the redeemer of Israel, his holy one,
to the one who despises life,
to the one who abhors the nation,
to the slave of rulers:
“Kings shall see and stand up;
princes, and they shall bow down,
for the sake of Yahweh, who is faithful,
the holy one of Israel, and he has chosen you.”
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Almighty and everlasting God, Your servant Silas preached the Gospel alongside the apostles Peter and Paul to the peoples of Asia Minor, Greece, and Macedonia. We give You thanks for raising up in this and every land evangelists and heralds of Your kingdom, that the Church may continue to proclaim the unsearchable riches of our Savior, Jesus Chrislt, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
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.
