Contemplative Bible Reading

Ezekiel 22:30 (New Living Translation) 30 “I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one. God is talking to the people through the prophet […]

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Ezekiel 20:26 (New Living Translation) 26 I let them pollute themselves with the very gifts I had given them, and I allowed them to give their firstborn children as offerings to their gods—so I might devastate them and remind them that I alone am the Lord. God is speaking to the people through the prophet […]

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Zechariah 8:16 (New Living Translation) 16 But this is what you must do: Tell the truth to each other. Render verdicts in your courts that are just and that lead to peace. God is talking to the people through the prophet Zechariah. The preceding sections tell how God is going to restore the people. The […]

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Malachi 1:14 (New Living Translation) 14 “Cursed is the cheat who promises to give a fine ram from his flock but then sacrifices a defective one to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “and my name is feared among the nations! Cursed is the cheater. The cheater […]

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Malachi 2:3 (New Living Translation) 3 I will punish your descendants and splatter your faces with the manure from your festival sacrifices, and I will throw you on the manure pile. God is speaking to the people through the prophet Malachi. In particular, God is addressing the priests who have not been conducting the Temple […]

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Daniel 5:23 (New Living Translation) 23 For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see […]

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Ezekiel 33:32 (New Living Translation) 32 You are very entertaining to them, like someone who sings love songs with a beautiful voice or plays fine music on an instrument. They hear what you say, but they don’t act on it! God is speaking to the prophet Ezekiel. God had spoken to the people through Ezekiel, […]

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Jeremiah 9:24 (New Living Translation) 24 But those who wish to boastshould boast in this alone:that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lordwho demonstrates unfailing loveand who brings justice and righteousness to the earth,and that I delight in these things.I, the Lord, have spoken! I just quoted this verse yesterday. This […]

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Jeremiah 9:23-24 (New Living Translation) 23 This is what the Lord says:“Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom,or the powerful boast in their power,or the rich boast in their riches.24 But those who wish to boastshould boast in this alone:that they truly know me and understand that I am the Lordwho demonstrates unfailing loveand […]

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Jeremiah 10:5 (New Living Translation) 5 Their gods are likehelpless scarecrows in a cucumber field!They cannot speak,and they need to be carried because they cannot walk.Do not be afraid of such gods,for they can neither harm you nor do you any good.” God is talking to the people through the prophet Jeremiah. This is a […]

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