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Read |   Day 240 | Friday | August 28 | Lamentations 5: 1-22 Obadiah 1: 1a, 1b-9, 10-14, 15-21 2   Kings 25: 22-26 Jeremiah 40: 7-12, 13-16 Jeremiah 41: 1-18  Background | When was Lamentations Written? | Click here for a Jewish perspective  Date | 586 BC Reading | Lamentations - Restore us, Lord...; You rule forever; Obadiah - Edom destroyed and Israel restored; 2 Kings & Jeremiah - Gedaliah Babylonian governor of Judah & plots. Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9 | kindle edition Next |  Day 241 | Saturday | August 29 | Jeremiah 42: 1-22  Jeremiah 43: 1-13  Jeremiah 44: 1-30  Ezekiel 33: 21-33 +++ Listen and pray the morning office provided by the good people of the Episcopal Parish of Garrett County, Maryland, USA via Mission St Clare –  Click here A Collect for Fridays Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered no...

Read | Day 22|January 22|Job 12:1 – 14:22 Background | See previous posts on Job Reading | Job answers Zophar's first speech: I am a laughstock to my friends, I am not inferior to you, you are all worthless in helping me; let me have silence; God - why do you hide your face from me?; mortals die; God prevails forever. Next | Day 23|January 23|Job 15:1 – 18:21 +++ A  Collect for the Renewal of Life O God, the King eternal,  who divides the day from the night  and turns the shadow of death into the morning:  Drive far from us all wrong desires,  incline our hearts to keep your law,  and guide our feet into the way of peace;  that, having done your will with cheerfulness while it was day,  we may, when night comes,  rejoice to give you thanks;  through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Source | Morning Prayer | Mission St Clare | Book of Common Prayer | Click here for today