August 2, 2026, Jeremiah 9:1-11 Oh that my head were waters,       and my eyes a fountain of tears,   that I might weep day and night       for the slain of the daughter of my people!   2 Oh that I had in the desert       a travelers' lodging place,   that I might leave my people       and go away from them!   For they are all adulterers,       a company of treacherous men.   3 They bend their tongue like a bow;       falsehood and not truth has grown strong [ c ] in the land;   for they proceed from evil to evil,       and they do not know me, declares the Lord . 4 Let everyone beware of his neighbor,       and put no trust in any brother,   for every brother is a deceiver,       and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.   5 Everyone deceives h...

  August 1, 2026, Jeremiah 8:18-22 18 My joy is gone; grief is upon me;       my heart is sick within me.   19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people       from the length and breadth of the land:   “Is the Lord not in Zion?       Is her King not in her?”   “Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images       and with their foreign idols?”   20 “The harvest is past, the summer is ended,       and we are not saved.”   21 For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded;       I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead?       Is there no physician there?   Why then has the health of the daughter of my people       not been restored?   The passage Jeremiah 8:18-22 portrays a deep emotion where the prophet Jer...