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Wednesday
First Lesson
Lamentations 2:1-10
1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud
in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty
of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his
anger!
2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and
hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong
holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to
the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel:
he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and
he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth
round about.
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right
hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the
eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out
his fury like fire.
5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath
swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds,
and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were
of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the
LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten
in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the
king and the priest.
7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,
he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her
palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as
in the day of a solemn feast.
8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter
of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn
his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the
wall to lament; they languished together.
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken
her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the
law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and
keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have
girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang
down their heads to the ground.
1st Lesson Questions -
Lamentations 2:1-10. Have I ever felt as if God covered me with a cloud of His anger? (V. 1) Should He have? What for? RESOLVE
Second Lesson
1 Peter 4:7-11
7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober,
and watch unto prayer.
8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves:
for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the
same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of
God.
11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if
any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:
that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ,
to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
2nd Lesson Questions -
1 Peter 4:7-11. Could these five verses be used to describe my life? If not, why not?