Chapter 4 ⁽²⁶⁾

Passage Read: Lamentations 1-4 Meditation Verses: 4:13-16 The prophets and priests sinned against the Lord, shedding the blood of the righteous in their streets, so the people became defiled with blood. They themselves cried out that they were unclean, and the nations refused to give…

Passage Read: Ecclesiastes 3-6 Meditation Verse: 4:13 This describes Saul and David well, though Solomon was not alive to see the conflict or the character of Saul. But he knew that it was because of disobedience that Saul lost the kingdom to David. It is…

Passage Read: Job 1-4 Meditation Verses: 4:17-18 As a man who didn't stand in the presence of God, who doesn't know there Lord or see Him operate, it is understandable that Eliphaz wouldn't know if this were true or false, and so would have no…

Passage Read: Nehemiah 4-7 Meditation Verses: 4:4-5 This, of course, flies in the face of "pray for those who persecute you," but Nehemiah didn't know about Jesus. Yet there is one God, one Lord; Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. So how does…

Passage Read: Ezra 2-5 Meditation Verses: 4:23-24 They rejoiced at the laying of the foundation, but when the governors of the land came by force to shut them down, they stopped. They didn't appeal the decision, they didn't remind the governors of Cyrus's decree, they…