daily reading 28.4 (Zechariah 11:10–14)

 5-days-a-week through Daniel and other late OT books in 2023

Our opening prayer for this week:

The will of God is always best and shall be done forever,
And they who trust in him are blest; he will forsake them never.
He helps indeed in time of need; He chastens with forebearing.
They who depend on God, their Friend, Shall not be left despairing.

God is my comfort and my trust, My hope and life abiding,
And to his counsel, wise and just, I yield, in him confiding.
The very hairs, his Word declares, upon my head he numbers.
By night and day God is my stay; He never sleeps nor slumbers.

Lord, this I ask; oh, hear my plea— Deny me not this favor:
When Satan sorely troubles me, Then do not let me waver.
Keep watch and ward, O gracious Lord; Fulfill your faithful saying:
All who believe by grace receive an answer to their praying.

When life’s brief course on earth is run And I this world am leaving,
Grant me to say, “Your will be done,” Your faithful Word believing.
My heavenly Friend, I now commend My soul into your keeping,
O’er sin and hell And death as well Through you the victory reaping. Amen.

 

Zechariah 11:10–14    

  • Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, annulling the covenant I had made with all the peoples. 11 It was annulled on that day, and so the oppressed of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
  • 12 Then I said to them, "If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." So they weighed my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
  • 13 "Throw it to the potter," the LORD said to me—this magnificent price I was valued by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw it into the house of the LORD, to the potter.
  • 14 Then I cut in two my second staff, Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Helpful notes on Zechariah 11:10–14



For yourself pray:

  • That God keeps you from insulting the precious blood of the Lamb

For others pray:

A psalm to listen to, as time allows:

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