Morning
Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? § The works of the Lord are great, studied by all who have pleasure in them.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. § This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night. § My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.
Gen. 24:63; Ps. 19:14; 8:3–4; 111:2; 1:1–2; Josh. 1:8; Ps. 63:5–6
Evening
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. § But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, yet I will not forget you.”
You will not be forgotten by Me! I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins.
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. § A woman . . . cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David!” . . . But He answered her not a word.
The genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes.
Ps. 13:1; James 1:17; Isa. 49:14–15; 44:21–22;
John 11:5–6; Matt. 15:22–23; 1 Peter 1:7
