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Lamentations 4:1-5:22~ Click here to read today’s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~ ~ Listen to today’s Scripture with Tom Dooley’s terrific NLT 1996 readings at this link, The ESV Bible ~ Lamentations Chapters 4 and 5 are tough chapters to read. We know why everything that we read in these chapters has come to pass…
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Lamentations 3:1-66~ Click here to read today’s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~ ~ Listen to today’s Scripture with The ESV Bible ~ Lamentations Chapter 3 today starts out quite sad and empty in verses 1-20. Of course, the reason for this sadness and emptiness in these opening verses is God’s discipline toward the people of…
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Lamentations 1:1-2:22~ Click here to read today’s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~ ~ Listen to today’s Scripture with The ESV Bible ~ Today we begin the book of Lamentations! Lamentations is a short 5 chapter book. It’s essentially a post-script to the book of Jeremiah, and was likely written by the prophet Jeremiah. It is…
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Jeremiah 51:54-52:34~ Click here to read today’s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~ ~ Listen to today’s Scripture with The ESV Bible ~ We reach the end of the book of Jeremiah today! This has been a fascinating book for me to read this year! I definitely learned a lot more about prophets, the fall of…
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Jeremiah 51:1-53~ Click here to read today’s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~~ Listen to today’s Scripture with The ESV Bible ~ Jeremiah Chapter 51 dives into Babylon’s destruction! Lately we’ve been basically just looking at Babylon the city & empire and Nebuchadnezzar from the historical perspective – though, certainly seeing where and how God has…
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Jeremiah 49:23-50:46~ Click here to read today’s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~ ~ Listen to today’s Scripture with The ESV Bible ~ We have quite the readings in Jeremiah chapter 49 & 50 today! The prophecies have turned from Judah and Jerusalem and are now directed toward their neighbors and toward their captors, Babylon. The…
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Jeremiah 48:1-49:22~ Click here to read today’s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~ ~ Listen to today’s Scripture with The ESV Bible ~ Jeremiah chapter 48 is not a very happy chapter… at first glance it’s tough to figure out what is going on in this chapter. Why is God so angry at Moab? I think…
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Jeremiah 44:24-47:7~ Click here to read today’s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~~ Listen to today’s Scripture with the ESV Bible ~ Jeremiah 44:28 stood out to me in today’s readings: “”Only a small number will escape death and return to Judah from Egypt.” This verse reminds me that God is continuing to preserve the line…
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Jeremiah 42:1-44:23~ Click here to read today’s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~ ~ Listen to today’s Scripture with The ESV Bible ~ The three Jeremiah chapters today are quite eventful! It is intriguing that the Israelites ask Jeremiah for a message from God – and that whatever they hear back they will do and obey.…
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Jeremiah 39:1-41:18~ Click here to read today’s Scripture on Bible Gateway ~~ Listen to today’s Scripture with The ESV Bible ~ Jeremiah chapter 39 brings the fall of Jerusalem! 🙁 It is sad to read about king Zedekiah’s fate. But, he was forewarned many times by Jeremiah of the coming destruction. It is interesting that…