daily reading 28.1 (Zechariah 10:6–12)

  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 10:6–12    

  • I will strengthen the house of Judah and deliver the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had never rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.
  • 7 Ephraim will be like a warrior, and their hearts will be glad as if with wine. Their children will see it and be glad; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.
  • 8 I will whistle and gather them because I have redeemed them; they will be as numerous as they once were.
  • 9 Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember me in the distant lands; they and their children will live and return. 10 I will bring them back from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, but it will not be enough for them.
  • 11 The LORD will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will come to an end.
  • 12 I will strengthen them in the LORD, and they will march in his name—this is the LORD's declaration.
Helpful notes on Zechariah 10:6–12





For yourself pray:

  • That you walk today in the strength of the Lord

For others pray:

  • That God swells his church worldwide with millions more believers

A psalm to listen to, as time allows:

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