October 31st (Day 304) Bible Reading

Lamentations 4:1-5:22
Hebrews 2:1-18
Psalm 103:1-22
Proverbs 26:23

 

Lam 4:1  How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. 

Lam 4:2  The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 

Lam 4:3  Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 

Lam 4:4  The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. 

Lam 4:5  They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. 

Lam 4:6  For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. 

Lam 4:7  Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: 

Lam 4:8  Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. 

Lam 4:9  They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. 

Lam 4:10  The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 

Lam 4:11  The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. 

Lam 4:12  The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. 

Lam 4:13  For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, 

Lam 4:14  They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. 

Lam 4:15  They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. 

Lam 4:16  The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. 

Lam 4:17  As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. 

Lam 4:18  They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. 

Lam 4:19  Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. 

Lam 4:20  The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. 

Lam 4:21  Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. 

Lam 4:22  The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. 

 

Lam 5:1  Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 

Lam 5:2  Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 

Lam 5:3  We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 

Lam 5:4  We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 

Lam 5:5  Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 

Lam 5:6  We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 

Lam 5:7  Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. 

Lam 5:8  Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. 

Lam 5:9  We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. 

Lam 5:10  Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. 

Lam 5:11  They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. 

Lam 5:12  Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. 

Lam 5:13  They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. 

Lam 5:14  The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. 

Lam 5:15  The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. 

Lam 5:16  The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 

Lam 5:17  For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. 

Lam 5:18  Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. 

Lam 5:19  Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. 

Lam 5:20  Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? 

Lam 5:21  Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 

Lam 5:22  But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. 

 

Heb 2:1  Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 

Heb 2:2  For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 

Heb 2:3  How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 

Heb 2:4  God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? 

Heb 2:5  For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. 

Heb 2:6  But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 

Heb 2:7  Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: 

Heb 2:8  Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. 

Heb 2:9  But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. 

Heb 2:10  For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 

Heb 2:11  For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 

Heb 2:12  Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. 

Heb 2:13  And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. 

Heb 2:14  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 

Heb 2:15  And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 

Heb 2:16  For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 

Heb 2:17  Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 

Heb 2:18  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. 

 

Psa 103:1  A Psalm of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 

Psa 103:2  Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 

Psa 103:3  Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 

Psa 103:4  Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 

Psa 103:5  Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. 

Psa 103:6  The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. 

Psa 103:7  He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. 

Psa 103:8  The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. 

Psa 103:9  He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. 

Psa 103:10  He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. 

Psa 103:11  For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 

Psa 103:12  As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. 

Psa 103:13  Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. 

Psa 103:14  For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. 

Psa 103:15  As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 

Psa 103:16  For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. 

Psa 103:17  But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; 

Psa 103:18  To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them. 

Psa 103:19  The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. 

Psa 103:20  Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. 

Psa 103:21  Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. 

Psa 103:22  Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul. 

 

Pro 26:23  Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.