+ DAILY PRAYER +
Job’s Final Defense Continued “But now those younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats. 2 Moreover, ?what use to me is the strength of their hands?? With them, vigor is destroyed…
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 106:1-12
Psa 106:1 Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD,
for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!
Psa 106:2 Who can utter the mighty deeds of the LORD,
or declare all his praise?
Psa 106:3 Blessed are they who observe justice,
who do righteousness at all times!
Psa 106:4 Remember me, O LORD,
when you show favor to your people;
help me when you save them,
Psa 106:5 that I may look upon the prosperity
of your chosen ones,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
that I may glory with your inheritance.
Psa 106:6 Both we and our fathers have sinned;
we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
Psa 106:7 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wondrous works;
they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
Psa 106:8 Yet he saved them for his name’s sake,
that he might make known his mighty power.
Psa 106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry,
and he led them through the deep as through a desert.
Psa 106:10 So he saved them from the hand of the foe
and redeemed them from the power of the enemy.
Psa 106:11 And the waters covered their adversaries;
not one of them was left.
Psa 106:12 Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.
Reading for Thursday October 10th Job 30:1-13
Job’s Final Defense Continued
30 “But now those younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me,
whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.
2 Moreover, ?what use to me is the strength of their hands??
With them, vigor is destroyed.
3 Through want and through barren hunger
they are gnawing in the dry region in the darkness of desolation and waste.
4 They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes,
and the roots of broom trees to warm themselves.
5 They were driven out from fellow people;
they shout at them as at a thief,
6 ?so that they dwell?
in holes of the ground and in the rocks.
7 They bray among the bushes;
they are gathered under the nettles.
8 ?A senseless crowd?, yes, ?a disreputable brood?,
they were cast out from the land.
9 “But now I am their mocking song,
and I have become a byword for them.
10 They abhor me; they keep aloof from me,
and they do not withhold spit from my face
11 because he has loosened his bowstring and humbled me,
and they have thrown off restraint ?in my presence?.
12 On the right hand the brood rises up;
?they put me to flight?,
and they build up their ?siege ramps? against me.
13 They destroy my path;
they promote my destruction;
they have no helper.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Gracious God, our heavenly Father, Your mercy attends us all our days. Be our strength and support amid the wearisome changes of this world, and at life’s end grant us Your promised rest and the full joys of Your salvation; 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.
