August 23

Today’s Reading is from Jeremiah Chapters 10 to 13

Jeremiah 10

1 Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus says the Lord:

“Learn not the way of the nations,

    nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens

    because the nations are dismayed at them,

3 for the customs of the peoples are vanity.

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August 21

Today’s Reading is from Jeremiah Chapters 4 to 6

Jeremiah 4

1 “If you return, O Israel,

declares the Lord,

    to me you should return.

If you remove your detestable things from my presence,

    and do not waver,

2 and if you swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’

    in truth, in justice, and in righteousness,

then nations shall bless themselves in him,

    and in him shall they glory.”

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August 20

Today’s Reading is from Jeremiah Chapters 2 and 3

Jeremiah 2

1 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,

“I remember the devotion of your youth,

    your love as a bride,

how you followed me in the wilderness,

    in a land not sown.

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August 19

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 64 to 66, and Jeremiah Chapter 1.

Isaiah 64

1 Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,

    that the mountains might quake at your presence—

2  as when fire kindles brushwood

    and the fire causes water to boil—

to make your name known to your adversaries,

    and that the nations might tremble at your presence!

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August 18

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 59 to 63.

Isaiah 59

1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,

    or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

2 but your iniquities have made a separation

    between you and your God,

and your sins have hidden his face from you

    so that he does not hear.

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August 17

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 54 to 58.

Isaiah 54

1 “Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;

    break forth into singing and cry aloud,

    you who have not been in labor!

For the children of the desolate one will be more

    than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.

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August 15

Today’s Reading is from Isaiah Chapters 45 to 48.

Isaiah 45

1 Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus,

    whose right hand I have grasped,

to subdue nations before him

    and to loose the belts of kings,

to open doors before him

    that gates may not be closed:

2 “I will go before you

    and level the exalted places,

I will break in pieces the doors of bronze

    and cut through the bars of iron,

3 I will give you the treasures of darkness

    and the hoards in secret places,

that you may know that it is I, the Lord,

    the God of Israel, who call you by your name.

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