Pharaoh Is Warned Through Assyria’s Destruction And then in the eleventh? year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his crowd, ‘To whom are you like in your greatness? 3 Look! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and a forest giving shade, and very high,…
+ 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 44:1-8
Psa 44:1 O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us,
what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:
Psa 44:2 you with your own hand drove out the nations,
but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;
Psa 44:3 for not by their own sword did they win the land,
nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm,
and the light of your face, for you delighted in them.
Psa 44:4 You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob!
Psa 44:5 Through you we push down our foes;
through your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
Psa 44:6 For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.
Psa 44:7 But you have saved us from our foes
and have put to shame those who hate us.
Psa 44:8 In God we have boasted continually,
and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah
Reading for Friday September 11th Ezekiel 31
Pharaoh Is Warned Through Assyria’s Destruction
31 ?And then? ?in the eleventh? year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, ?saying?, 2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his crowd,
‘To whom are you like in your greatness?
3 Look! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
with beautiful branches and a forest giving shade,
and ?very high?,
and its treetop was between the clouds.
4 Waters made it great,
the deep made it grow high;
its rivers were going all around ?its planting area?,
and its channels it sent out
to all of the trees of the field.
5 Therefore it became tall,
with its height more than all of the trees of the field,
and its branches became numerous,
and its branches became long
?from its sending its shoots from abundant water?.
6 In its branches all the birds of the heaven made their nest,
and under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth,
and in its shadow all the many nations lived.
7 And it was beautiful in its greatness,
in the length of its branches,
for its root was toward much water.
8 Cedars in the garden of God
could not be equal to it;
fir trees could not resemble its branches,
and plane trees were not even like its branches;
any tree even in the garden of God
could not resemble it in its beauty.
9 I made it beautiful with the abundance of its branches,
and all of the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it.’ ”
10 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “?Because? it was tall in height and it set its treetop between thick clouds, and ?he took pride in his tallness?, 11 then I gave it into the hand of the leader of nations; he ?dealt thoroughly? with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out. 12 And strangers cut it off, the most ruthless of nations, and they abandoned it. On the mountains and in all of the valleys its branches fell, and its branches were broken in all the river channels of the land, and all the peoples of the world went out from its shadow, and they abandoned it. 13 On its fallen trunk all the birds of the heaven now dwell, and all the animals of the field were on its branches. 14 This occurred so that all of the trees with abundant water will not become tall, and they will not set their treetop between their thick foliage, and so that ?all of the trees that are abundantly watered? ?will not stand up to them? in their tallness, for all of them, they have been given over to death, to the world below in the midst of ?mortals?, to the people going down to the grave.”
15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “On the day of its going down to Sheol, I caused mourning; I covered over it with the deep, and I withheld its rivers, and many waters were restrained, and I brought gloom over it; Lebanon and all of the trees of the field, they had fainted because of it. 16 From the sound of its downfall I caused nations to shake when I made it go down to Sheol, with the people going down to the grave, and so in the world below all of the trees of Eden, the choice and the best of Lebanon, ?all the well-watered trees? were comforted! 17 They also went down with it to Sheol to ?those who died by the sword?, and its army who had lived in its shadow in the midst of nations.
18 ?To whom could you be compared, whether in glory or in majesty? among the trees of Eden? And yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; in the midst of the uncircumcised you will lie with ?those who died by the sword?. That is Pharaoh and ?his entire? crowd!” ?declares? the Lord Yahweh.
Lord’s Prayer
Daily Prayer
Most merciful Father, with compassion You hear the cries of Your people in great distress. Be with all who now endure affliction and calamity, bless the work of those who bring rescue and relief, and enable us to aid and comfort those who are suffering that they may find renewed hope and purpose; through Jesus Christ, 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.
