Monday in Season after Pentecost

18Verse 18. Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far? 19Verse 19. And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD? 20Verse 20. What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD. 21Verse 21. For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant. 22Verse 22. How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears. 23Verse 23. And who is like Your people Israel — the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt. 24Verse 24. For You have established Your people Israel as Your very own forever, and You, O LORD, have become their God. 25Verse 25. And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised, 26Verse 26. so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You. 27Verse 27. For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You. 28Verse 28. And now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant. 29Verse 29. Now therefore, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with Your blessing the house of Your servant will be blessed forever.”

1Verse 1. This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans: 2Verse 2. “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’ 3Verse 3. For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.” 4Verse 4. “In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God. 5Verse 5. They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten. 6Verse 6. My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place. 7Verse 7. All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’