Daily Bible Verses by Book

The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and for ever.
The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish...

The people walking in darkness
    have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness
    a light has dawned.

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6 For to us a child is born,
    to us a son is given,
    and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he...

For a child has been born for us, 
   a son given to us; 
authority rests upon his shoulders, 
   and he is named 
Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, 
   Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace  Isaiah 9:6

Allowing ourselves time to stop and wonder is a beautiful but tricky thing to do. Pausing long enough to rediscover the wonder of the Christmas story can be hard, but is, non the less, rewarding.

Isaiah 9 invites us to pause and consider how Jesus, the greatest of all wonders, arrived in the smallest of...

Heavenly father
Give use grace to turn away from pride, lies, profanity, folly and all wickedness
Give us grace to seek you with all our heart.

⁸ The Lord sent a word to Israel, and ⁹ All the people will know, who say in pride ¹⁰ “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone.
¹¹ Therefore Yahweh will stir up his enemies...

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to hunger and thirst after righteousness and justice

¹ Woe to those who decree unrighteous and oppressive decrees; 
² to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights,
that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! 
^3 ...

Heavenly Father
Give us grace to not give in to the temptation of wanting to destroy and
Give us grace to look beyond our own strength and our own wisdom, so that we Hallow your name, not ours; and seek your Kingdom and Your will, not ours.  

⁵ Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger and indignation!  ⁶ I will send him to plunder a profane nation who anger me
 ⁷ However he doesn’t mean so, neither does...

Heavenly Father
give us grace to truly lean on you

²⁰ It will come to pass that the remnant of Israel
will no more again lean on the King of Assyria who struck them,
but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 

Heavenly Father
give us grace to trust you when the destructive consequences of sin occur
give us grace to see this as an overflowing of righteousness.

(Note: Judah will be destroyed due to its turning away from Yahweh to other Gods.  The destruction will come from Assyria, who will then be destroyed, for the same reason)

²²A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. 
^23 ...

A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;  
   from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.  
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him –  
   the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,  
   the Spirit of counsel and of might,  
   the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord –  
and he will delight in the fear of the Lord.  
He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,  
   or decide by what he hears with his ears;  
but with righteousness he will judge the...