A Song of Praise to Yahweh Sing a new song to Yahweh; praise him from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea and that which fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. 11 Let the desert and its towns lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy; let them shout loudly from the ?top? of the mountains. 12 Let them give glory to Yahweh and declare his praise in the coastlands. 13 Yahweh goes forth like a mighty warrior; he stirs up zeal like a man of war. He raises the war cry, indeed he raises the battle shout; he prevails against his foes…
+ 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 107:1-9
Psa 107:1 Oh give thanks to the LORD,
for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
Psa 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so,
whom he has redeemed from trouble
Psa 107:3 and gathered in from the lands,
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.
Psa 107:4 Some wandered in desert wastes,
finding no way to a city to dwell in;
Psa 107:5 hungry and thirsty,
their soul fainted within them.
Psa 107:6 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
Psa 107:7 He led them by a straight way
till they reached a city to dwell in.
Psa 107:8 Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love,
for his wondrous works to the children of man!
Psa 107:9 For he satisfies the longing soul,
and the hungry soul he fills with good things.
Reading for Thursday January 29th Isaiah 42:10-25
A Song of Praise to Yahweh
10 Sing a new song to Yahweh;
praise him from the end of the earth,
you who go down to the sea and that which fills it,
the coastlands and their inhabitants.
11 Let the desert and its towns lift up their voice,
the villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;
let them shout loudly from the ?top? of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to Yahweh
and declare his praise in the coastlands.
13 Yahweh goes forth like a mighty warrior;
he stirs up zeal like a man of war.
He raises the war cry, indeed he raises the battle shout;
he prevails against his foes.
14 I have been silent for a long time;
I have kept silent;
I have restrained myself like one giving birth;
I will moan, pant, and gasp together.
15 I will cause mountains and hills to dry up,
and I will cause all their herbage to wither;
and I will make rivers like islands,
and I will cause pools to dry up.
16 And I will lead the blind by a road they do not know;
I will cause them to tread on paths they have not known.
I will make darkness ?in their presence? into light
and rough places into level ground.
These are the things I will do,
and I will not forsake them.
17 They shall turn back;
they shall be ?greatly ashamed?,
those who trust in an image,
who say to a cast image, “You are our gods.”
Blind and Deaf Israel
18 Deaf people, listen!
And blind people, look to see!
19 Who is blind but my servant
or deaf like my messenger whom I sent?
Who is blind like the one who is repaid
or blind like the servant of Yahweh?
20 You see many things, but you do not observe.
His ears are open, but he does not hear.
21 Yahweh was willing for the sake of his righteousness;
he showed his teaching to be great and proved it to be glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted; all of them are trapped in holes,
and they are kept hidden in houses of imprisonment.
They have become like plunder, and there is no one who saves;
like booty, and there is no one who says, “Restore!”
23 Who among you will heed this,
will listen attentively and listen, for ?the time to come??
24 Who gave Jacob to a plunderer
and Israel to those who plunder?
Was it not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned?
And they were not willing to walk in his ways,
and they would not ?obey? his law.
25 So he poured the wrath of his anger upon him
and the strength of war.
And it set him afire all around, but he did not understand;
and it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Almighty God, You show mercy to Your people in all their troubles. Grant us always to recognize Your goodness, give thanks for Your compassion, and praise Your holy name; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, 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.
