2022-10-06 12:41 Samuel 22:7-16. This is part of a song of praise of David to God after God has delivered David from Saul and all his enemies. David says that in his distress he called upon God and God heard him. "The...

2022-10-04 12:51 Ezekiel 41:1-4. An angel is leading Ezekiel through a vision of the new temple, measuring everything as he goes. In this passage they get to the nave, which is 40 cubits long by 20 cubits wide. From t...

2022-10-02 10:35 Lamentations 3:43-45. On seeing the destruction all around him, Jeremiah cries out to God "Thou hast wrapped thyself with anger and pursued us, slaying without pity; thou has wrapped thyself with a cl...

2022-10-01 11:28 Jeremiah 34:13-17. Through Jeremiah God reminds his people that he made a covenant with them when he brought them out of Egypt and they were supposed to release their slaves after 6 years of bondage. ...

2022-09-30 14:10 Baruch 4:17-20. Baruch is comparing Jerusalem and God's law that dwells there to a mother mourning her children in exile. "But I, how can I help you? " She asks. The only one who can deliver them ...

2022-09-29 06:49 2 Corinthians 4:2-6. Writing for himself and Timothy, Paul says they have renounced "disgraceful, underhanded ways." When preaching the Gospel they will not use cunning nor tamper with God's word....

2022-09-28 10:45 Sirach 12:17-18. If calamity befalls you, an enemy will be there ahead of you. While pretending to help you, he will trip you. He will shake his head and clap his hands, whisper much and change his ex...

2022-09-26 11:33 2 Kings 24:3-4. Speaking about the punishment of Judah under Jehoiakim, the author writes "Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Mana...

2022-09-25 11:25 Isaiah 66:17-24. At the end of the (long!) Book of the Prophet Isaiah we get this final prophecy. God says he sees the deeds of those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, followi...

2022-09-24 11:43 Sirach 33:14-15. "Good is the opposite of evil, and life the opposite of death; so the sinner is the opposite of the godly." Sirach tells us to look upon the works of God - they are all likewise in pa...