Daily Bible Verses

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 …

Heavenly father
pour out your holy spirit on us, so that we may be wise and understand what it is to fear you.

¹ A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;
    from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
² The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—
    the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
    the Spirit of counsel and of might,
    …

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek your righteousness and justice, and not be swayed by the sometimes small amount of information that we see and hear.

³ He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,
    or decide by what he hears with his ears;
⁴ but with righteousness he will judge the needy,
    with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth.
He will strike the earth with…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be filled with your knowledge, so that we do no harm today

⁶ The wolf will live with the lamb,
    the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
    and a little child will lead them.
⁷ The cow will feed with the bear,
    their young will lie down together,
    and the lion will eat…

Heavenly father
give us grace to come out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of Your Son so that people from all nations shall see Your glorious salvation visible like a banner, and come to it.

¹⁰ In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be glorious. 
¹¹ In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving…

Heavenly father
give us grace to draw on your strength in good times as well as bad, so that you may be our song and salvation today and everyday, for ever.

¹ In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. 
² Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.” 
³ Therefore with joy you…

Heavenly father
give us grace to walk humbly before you so that we will not be destroyed in our pride and arrogance.

⁴ Yahweh of Armies is mustering an army, ⁵  the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.   ⁶ For Yahweh’s day is at hand!  ⁷ Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.  . ⁹ Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of…

Heavenly father
give us grace to cling on to hope in the face of sorrow, trouble and oppression.
give us grace to turn away from arrogance and from anything which puts down others.

¹ Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. ² The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place.…

Heavenly father, when we are afflicted give us grace to be a blessing to those who are poor, needy and afflicted.

²⁸ This burden was in the year that king Ahaz (of Judah) died (in whose reign Philistia had oppressed parts of Judah)
²⁹ Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. ³⁰ The…

Heavenly father

give us grace to have compassion for those who are suffering as a result of their own sins
give us grace to repent of our own pride - pride which leads to oppression and wrath.

^15:1 In a night, Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.
⁵ My heart cries out for Moab!

^16:3 Give counsel! Execute justice! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive! 
⁴  For the extortionist is brought to nothing. The oppressors are consumed out of the land. 

^5…

Heavenly father
give us grace to turn to you for strength and worship you alone

¹⁰ Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength.
⁹ your strong cities will be a desolation.  and ¹¹ you will have a harvest of grief and of desperate sorrow.

⁷ In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. 
^8…

Heavenly father
give us grace to wait for your kingdom to come, for your will be done. 

¹ A message for the land of Ethiopia; ² that sends ambassadors Egypt (to join forces against Assyria)” :
³ All you inhabitants of the world, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!
⁴ Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling…

Heavenly father
give us grace in the face of civil unrest, international catastrophe and natural disaster, to have hope for a day of blessing, when all people (Egypt, Assyria and Israel) will be blessed

¹  “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it. 
² I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother and his neighbour;
^4 …

He will swallow up death forever.

The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears
    from all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
    from all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
We have a strong city; God makes salvation its walls and ramparts.
Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
Trust in the Lord for ever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.

¹ Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, ² who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt! ³ Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be…

1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. 2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

3 The voice of one who calls out,
    “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!…

Heavenly father
give us grace to wait for you, so that by waiting for you we find strength

²⁸ Haven’t you known?
    Haven’t you heard?
    The everlasting God, Yahweh,
    the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint.
    He isn’t weary.
    His understanding is unsearchable.
²⁹ He gives power to the weak.
    He increases the strength of him…

    but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength.
    They will mount up with wings like eagles.
    They will run, and not be weary.
    They will walk, and not faint.

“Keep silent before me, islands,
    and let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come near,
    then let them speak.
    Let’s meet together for judgment.
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to turn in silence to you, our beginning and our end, for strength

¹ “Keep silent before me, islands,
    and let the peoples renew their strength.
Let them come near,
    then let them speak.
    Let’s meet together for judgement.
² Who has raised up one from the east? [Cyrus]
    Who called him to his foot in righteousness?
    He hands over nations to him
…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to hold your hand, to take strength from you and to serve you today

⁸ “But you, Israel, my servant,
    Jacob whom I have chosen,
    the offspring of Abraham my friend,
⁹     You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth,
    and called from its corners,
    and said to you, ‘You are my servant…

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you.
    Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God.
    I will strengthen you.
    Yes, I will help you.
    Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Heavenly Father
give us grace to turn to you both before and after we face difficult situations 

¹⁴ Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob,
    and you men of Israel.
    I will help you,” says Yahweh.
    “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
¹⁵ Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.
    You will thresh the mountains,
    and beat them small,
 …

Heavenly Father
give us grace to open our eyes and minds to see and understand your work in the world

¹⁷ The poor and needy seek water, and there is none.
    Their tongue fails for thirst.
I, Yahweh, will answer them.
    I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
¹⁸ I will open rivers on the bare heights,
    and will make the wilderness a pool of water.
²⁰     that they may see, know, consider, and understand…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to see the limitations of all those things that we might be tempted to put in place of you
give us grace to hear your voice and understand the nature of things (“what they are”)  

^{[Talking about whatever we put in place of God, Yahweh says]
21} Produce your cause,” says Yahweh.
    “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.
²² “Let them announce and declare to us what will happen!
    Declare the former things, what they are,…

Heavenly Father
give us grace to see the worthlessness of what we put in place of you today 

²⁵ “I have raised up one from the north [Cyrus], one who calls on my name,
    and he shall come on rulers [the Babylonians] as the potter treads clay.
²⁹ Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing.
    Their molten images are wind and confusion.

Heavenly father
give us grace to be gentle today with others particularly when we feel strongly about the rights and wrongs of situations.

42 “Behold, my servant, whom I uphold,
    my chosen, in whom my soul delights:
    I have put my Spirit on him.
    He will bring justice to the nations.
² He will not shout,
    nor raise his voice,
    nor cause it to be heard in the street.
³ He won’t break a…

[They[ Do not cry out or shout aloud,  or make their voice heard in the streets; 
But faithfully they bring true justice  refusing to be wavered or crushed, 
until true justice is established on earth.  —Isaiah 42:2–4 

Richard Rohr identifies the elusive nature of prophetic leadership:  

The normal power systems of our world worship themselves and not God. For that reason, prophets almost never hold official positions, like that of king, priest, or elder. However, neither do they dismiss the proper roles that rulers and…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be faithful in being a blessing to others, bringing light and freedom

⁵ God Yahweh,
    he who created the heavens and stretched them out,
    he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it,
    he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:
⁶ “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness.
    I will hold your hand.
    I will keep you,
…