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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