Contemplative Bible Reading

Lamentations 1:3 (New Living Translation) She (Judah) lives among foreign nationsand has no place of rest. The writer is lamenting or mourning the fate of Judah. Hauled away from home, the Judeans live in other countries. They never rest. They mourn continuously. In what country do Christians live today? Oh, well, uh, just about every […]

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Lamentations 1:22 (New Living Translation) 22 “Look at all their evil deeds, Lord.Punish them,as you have punished mefor all my sins.My groans are many,and I am sick at heart.” The writer here is crying in sorrow. The people sinned for generations and are suffering for their choices. “Once a queen…now a slave.” “All her friends […]

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Lamentations 3:22-23 (King James Version) 22 It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. I oft forget the blessings of God. Such is my human failing. God’s compassions do not fail. From God’s compassions come mercies, and […]

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Lamentations 3:25-26 (New Living Translation) 25 The Lord is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him. 26 So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord. Read softly and slowly: Let us pause. Let us consider what it is we do. Stop all things and first […]

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Lamentations 3:22-25 (King James Version) 22 It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 The Lord is good unto them that […]

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Lamentations 3:64-65 (New Living Translation) 64 Pay them back, Lord, for all the evil they have done. 65 Give them hard and stubborn hearts, and then let your curse fall on them! Lamenting the present world of woe, the writer asks God to “pay back” evil for the evil that the evil have done. Please […]

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Lamentations 3:44 (New Living Translation) You have hidden yourself in a cloud so our prayers cannot reach you. The writer is lamenting the sorrowful state of God’s people. This verse gives one of the more awful things that has happened. The prayers of the people cannot reach God. Imagine we all have a new revelation […]

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Lamentations 3:25-26 (New International Version) 25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; 26 it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. This is a simple sentence, simple yet full of great promise. I don’t believe that this is a promise […]

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