daily reading 28.2 (Zechariah 11:1–3)

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 11:1–3    

  • Open your gates, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars.
  • 2 Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the glorious trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the stately forest has fallen!
  • 3 Listen to the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. Listen to the roar of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
Helpful notes on Zechariah 11:1–3



For yourself pray:

  • That God upholds you in Christ when you are at your most bleak

For others pray:

  • That God glorifies his holy name by bringing more people into the kingdom of his Son in the West Bank/Gaza

A psalm to listen to, as time allows:

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