Daily Bible Verses

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to remember your love and power shown when you brought your people out of Egypt through the Red Sea, and know that the same spirit is with us today. 

¹¹ “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
    Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
¹² Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand?
    Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
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Heavenly Father
give us grace today to call out to you for help when we need help

¹⁵ Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.
Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?
    The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
[We need your care, Lord, and it seems to be lacking]

¹⁶ For you are our Father,
    though Abraham doesn’t know us,
    and Israel does not acknowledge us.
You,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to joyfully do what is right, and to remember you in all our ways, so that your name may be known to others. 

¹ Oh that you would tear the heavens,
    that you would come down,
    that the mountains might quake at your presence.
² As when fire kindles the brushwood,
    and the fire causes the water to boil;
Make your name known to your adversaries,
    that the…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to call on your name, to stir ourselves up and take hold of you

⁵ Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.
    We have been in sin for a long time.
    Shall we be saved?
⁶ For we have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf;
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
⁷ There is no one who calls…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live as those who have been made in your image. 

⁸ But now, Yahweh, you are our Father.
    We are the clay and you our potter.
    We all are the work of your hand.
⁹ Don’t be furious, Yahweh.
    Don’t remember iniquity forever.
Look and see, we beg you,
    we are all your people.
¹⁰ Your holy cities have become a wilderness.
    Zion has…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to think as you think, and to be humble

¹ “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.
    I am found by those who didn’t seek me.
    I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
² I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people,
    who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
³ a people who provoke me to my face continually,
  …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to not give up on people who have strayed from the right path, just as you don’t give up on people. 

⁸ Yahweh says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster,
    and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’
so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.
⁹ I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains.
My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there.
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Heavenly Father
give us grace today to listen to you, particularly when we are tempted to do things which are not good.

¹¹ “But you who forsake Yahweh,
    who forget my holy mountain,
    who prepare a table for Fortune,
    and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
¹² I will destin you to the sword,
    and you will all bow down to the slaughter;
because when I called, you didn’t answer.
    When I spoke, you didn…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to serve you and other people

¹³ Therefore the Lord Yahweh says,“Behold, my servants will eat,
    but you will be hungry;
behold, my servants will drink,
    but you will be thirsty.
Behold, my servants will rejoice,
    but you will be disappointed;
¹⁴ Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart,
    but you will cry for sorrow of…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be a blessing to all, including ourselves

^{[There will be an end to unrighteousness]
15} You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you.

^{[But righteousness is altogether different]]}
He will call his servants by another name,
¹⁶     so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth;
    and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in the hope of a new heaven and a new earth

¹⁷ “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
    and the former things will not be remembered,
    nor come into mind.
¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
    for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight,
    and her people a joy.
¹⁹ I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
    …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate towards those who carry immense sorrow

²⁰ “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,
    nor an old man who has not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old,
    and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to be compassionate to those who suffer economic injustice

²¹ They will build houses and inhabit them.
    They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² They will not build and another inhabit.
    They will not plant and another eat:
for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,
    and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
²³ They will not labour in vain
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to speak our deepest desires to you today

²⁴ It will happen that before they call, I will answer;
    and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
 

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in hope for peace

²⁵ The wolf and the lamb will feed together.
    The lion will eat straw like the ox.
    Dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,”
    says Yahweh.

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to have a contrite spirit. 

1 Yahweh says,

“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
    What kind of house will you build to me?      Where will I rest?
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Heavenly Father
give us grace today to choose your ways

3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man;
    he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck;
    he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood;
    …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live in the peace that flows from you, and to be channels of peace and comfort to others. 

5 Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word:
12 For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
    and the glory of the nations like an…

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to see the downfall of wickedness and evil

14 You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice,
    and your bones will flourish like the tender grass.
Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants;
    …

Heavenly Father
give us grace today to live as those who are known by you. 

18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.