daily reading 46.2 (Nehemiah 6:1–9)
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Our opening prayer for this week:
Jesus, your blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress.
Midst flaming worlds with these arrayed
With joy shall I lift up my head.
Bold shall I stand on that great day.
Who can a word against me say?
Fully through these absolved I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.
Lord, I believe your precious blood,
Which at the very throne of God
Forever will for sinners plead,
For me— e’en for my soul— was shed.
Lord, I believe were sinners more
Than sands upon the ocean shore,
You have for all a ransom paid,
For all a full atonement made.
When from the dust of death I rise
To claim your heavenly kingdom prize,
Then this shall be my only plea:
Jesus has lived and died for me.
Jesus, be worshiped endlessly!
Your boundless mercy has for me,
For me and all your hands have made,
An everlasting ransom paid. Amen.
Nehemiah 6:1–9
- When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and that no gap was left in it—though at that time I had not installed the doors in the city gates— 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent me a message: "Come, let's meet together in the villages of the Ono Valley." They were planning to harm me.
- 3 So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing important work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?" 4 Four times they sent me the same proposal, and I gave them the same reply.
- 5 Sanballat sent me this same message a fifth time by his aide, who had an open letter in his hand.
- 6 In it was written: It is reported among the nations-- and Geshem agrees-- that you and the Jews plan to rebel. This is the reason you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king 7 and have even set up the prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf: "There is a king in Judah." These rumors will be heard by the king. So come, let's confer together.
- 8 Then I replied to him, "There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind."
- 9 For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, "They will drop their hands from the work, and it will never be finished."
- But now, my God, strengthen my hands.
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