The Lord is Angry How, ?in his anger?, the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud! He has thrown down from heavens to earth the splendor of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of ?his anger?. 2 The Lord has devoured; he has not shown mercy to all the dwellings of Jacob…
+ 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 38:9-22
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 38:12 Those who seek my life lay their snares;
those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.
Psa 38:13 But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,
like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
Psa 38:14 I have become like a man who does not hear,
and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
Psa 38:15 But for you, O LORD, do I wait;
it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
Psa 38:16 For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me,
who boast against me when my foot slips!”
Psa 38:17 For I am ready to fall,
and my pain is ever before me.
Psa 38:18 I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.
Psa 38:19 But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,
and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
Psa 38:20 Those who render me evil for good accuse me
because I follow after good.
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 Wednesday November 5th Lamentations 2:1-10
The Lord is Angry
2 How, ?in his anger?,
the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud!
He has thrown down from heavens to earth
the splendor of Israel,
and he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of ?his anger?.
2 The Lord has devoured; he has not shown mercy
to all the dwellings of Jacob;
he has broken down in his wrath
the fortifications of the daughter of Judah;
he has leveled to the ground, he has dishonored
the kingdom and its commanders.
3 He has cut down ?in fierce anger?
all the might of Israel;
he has withdrawn his right hand
from the faces of the enemy,
and he has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire,
it has consumed all around.
4 He has bent his bow like an enemy;
he has set his right hand
like a foe, and he has slain
all the treasures of the eye;
in the tent of the daughter of Zion,
he has poured out his anger like fire.
5 The Lord has become like an enemy;
he has destroyed Israel;
he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses;
he has ruined all its fortifications
and multiplied lamentation and mourning
in the daughter of Judah.
6 He has broken down ?his dwelling? place like the garden;
he has ruined his appointed feasts;
Yahweh has made them forget in Zion
?festival? and Sabbath,
and he has despised in his anger
king and priest.
7 The Lord has rejected his altar;
he has rejected his sanctuary;
he has delivered into the hands of the enemy
the walls of its citadel fortresses.
They have cried out in the house of Yahweh
like a day of an appointed feast.
8 Yahweh has planned to destroy
the wall of the daughter of Zion.
He measured with a line; he has not restrained
his hand from destroying;
he caused rampart and wall to mourn;
together they have languished away.
9 Her gates have sunk into the earth;
he has ruined and broken her bars,
her kings and its princes are among the nations;
there is no more law.
Also, her prophets have not found
a revelation from Yahweh.
10 They sit on the ground,
the elders of the daughter of Zion are silent.
They cast dust on their head,
they have put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their head down to the ground.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Merciful and gracious Lord, You cause Your Word to be proclaimed in every generation. Stir up our hearts and minds by Your Holy Spirit that we may receive this proclamation with humility and finally be exalted at the coming of Your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, 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.
