Lamentations
1:1-6
Lamentations
3:19-26
2 Timothy 1:1-14
Luke 17:5-10
1:1
How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! How like
a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations!
She that was a princess among the provinces has become a vassal.
1:2
She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among
all her lovers she has no one to comfort her; all her friends
have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.
1:3
Judah has gone into exile with suffering and hard servitude; she
lives now among the nations, and finds no resting place; her
pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the festivals; all
her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her young girls
grieve, and her lot is bitter.
1:5
Her foes have become the masters, her enemies prosper, because
the LORD has made her suffer for the multitude of her
transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the
foe.
1:6
From daughter Zion has departed all her majesty. Her princes
have become like stags that find no pasture; they fled without
strength before the pursuer.
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3:19
The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and
gall!
3:20
My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me.
3:21
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
3:22
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never
come to an end;
3:23
they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
3:24
"The LORD is my portion," says my soul,
"therefore I will hope in him."
3:25
The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that
seeks him.
3:26
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the
LORD.
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1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, for the
sake of the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,
1:2
To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God
the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1:3
I am grateful to God--whom I worship with a clear conscience, as
my ancestors did--when I remember you constantly in my prayers
night and day.
1:4
Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled
with joy.
1:5
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in
your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure,
lives in you.
1:6
For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is
within you through the laying on of my hands;
1:7
for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a
spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.
1:8
Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of
me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel,
relying on the power of God,
1:9
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to
our works but according to his own purpose and grace. This grace
was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
1:10
but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior
Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and
immortality to light through the gospel.
1:11
For this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a
teacher,
1:12
and for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for
I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that
he is able to guard until that day what I have entrusted to him.
1:13
Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from
me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
1:14
Guard the good treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the
Holy Spirit living in us.
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17:5
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
17:6
The Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard
seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and
planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
17:7
"Who among you would say to your slave who has just come in
from plowing or tending sheep in the field, 'Come here at once
and take your place at the table'?
17:8
Would you not rather say to him, 'Prepare supper for me, put on
your apron and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat
and drink'?
17:9
Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded?
17:10
So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do,
say, 'We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought
to have done!'"
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