Concerning Edom, thus says Yahweh of hosts: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel become lost from those who understand? Is their wisdom rotting? 8 Flee! Turn back! ?Get down low?! O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau at the time when I will punish him. 9 If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves in the night,…
+ 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 37:1-7
Psa 37:1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not envious of wrongdoers!
Psa 37:2 For they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.
Psa 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good;
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
Psa 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psa 37:5 Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him, and he will act.
Psa 37:6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.
Psa 37:7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
over the man who carries out evil devices!
Reading for Friday June 12th Jeremiah 49:7-22
A Message Concerning Edom
7 Concerning Edom, thus says Yahweh of hosts:
“Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?
Has counsel become lost from those who understand?
Is their wisdom rotting?
8 Flee! Turn back! ?Get down low?!
O inhabitants of Dedan.
For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau
at the time when I will punish him.
9 If grape-gatherers come to you,
would they not leave gleanings?
If thieves in the night,
they destroy only ?enough for them?.
10 But I have stripped Esau bare.
I have uncovered his hiding places,
and he is not able to hide himself.
His offspring are devastated, ?along with? his brothers,
and his neighbors, and ?he is no more?.
11 Leave your orphans. I will let them live.
And your widows, let them trust in me.”
12 For thus says Yahweh, “Look, those ?who are not condemned? to drink the cup must certainly drink it. And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it. 13 For I have sworn by myself,” ?declares? Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be ?everlasting sites of ruins?.”
14 I have heard a message from Yahweh,
and a messenger has been sent among the nations.
“Gather and come against her,
and rise for the battle.”
15 “For look, I will make you small among the nations,
despised by the humankind.
16 Your terror has deceived you,
the pride of your heart,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
you who seize the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest high like the eagle,
from there I will bring you down,” ?declares? Yahweh.
17 “And Edom will become as a horror,
?everyone who passes by it? will be appalled,
and will hiss because of all its blows.
18 As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
and their neighbors,” says Yahweh,
“?no one? will live there,
and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it.
19 Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan
to ?a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream?.
So ?I will chase him away hurriedly? from it.
And whoever is chosen I will appoint over it.
For who is like me, and who can summon me?
And who is this, the shepherd who can stand ?before me??”
20 ?Therefore? hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom,
and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman.
?Surely? they will drag them away,
the little ones of the flock.
?Surely? he will cause to be desolated over them
their grazing place.
21 The earth will quake from the sound of their falling.
A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at ?the Red Sea?.
22 Look, like an eagle he will go up and he will swoop down,
and he will spread out his wings against Bozrah.
And the heart of the warriors of Edom will be in that day
like the heart of a woman who is in labor.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Lord God, heavenly Father, at the first ecumenical Council of Nicaea, Your Church boldly confessed that it believed in one Lord Jesus Christ as being of one substance with the Father,. Grant us courage to confess this saving faith with Your Church through all the ages; 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.
