October 31, 2026, Lamentations 5:11-18 11  Women are raped in Zion,      young women in the towns of Judah. 12  Princes are hung up by their hands;      no respect is shown to the elders. 13  Young men are compelled to grind at the mill,      and boys stagger under loads of wood. 14  The old men have left the city gate,      the young men their music. 15  The joy of our hearts has ceased;      our dancing has been turned to mourning. 16  The crown has fallen from our head;      woe to us, for we have sinned! 17  For this our heart has become sick,      for these things our eyes have grown dim, 18  for Mount Zion which lies desolate;      jackals prowl over it.   How does your sin ultimately cost others? Is that truly what you want to do? ...

October 30, 2026, Lamentations 5:1-10 Restore Us to Yourself, O  Lord 5  Remember, O  Lord , what has befallen us;      look, and see our disgrace! 2  Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,      our homes to foreigners. 3  We have become orphans, fatherless;      our mothers are like widows. 4  We must pay for the water we drink;      the wood we get must be bought. 5  Our pursuers are at our necks;      we are weary; we are given no rest. 6  We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,      to get bread enough. 7  Our fathers sinned, and are no more;      and we bear their iniquities. 8  Slaves rule over us;      there is none to deliver us from their hand. 9  We get our bread at the peril of our lives,    ...

October 29, 2026, Lamentations 4:16-22 16  The  Lord  himself [ f ]  has scattered them;      he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests,      no favor to the elders. 17  Our eyes failed, ever watching      vainly for help; in our watching we watched      for a nation which could not save. 18  They dogged our steps      so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered,      for our end had come. 19  Our pursuers were swifter      than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains;      they lay in wait for us in the wilderness. 20  The breath of our nostrils, the  Lord 's anointed,      was captured in their pits, of whom we said, “Under his shadow ...

October 28, 2026, Lamentations 4:9-15 9  Happier were the victims of the sword      than the victims of hunger, who wasted away, pierced      by lack of the fruits of the field. 10  The hands of compassionate women      have boiled their own children; they became their food      during the destruction of the daughter of my people. 11  The  Lord  gave full vent to his wrath;      he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion      that consumed its foundations. 12  The kings of the earth did not believe,      nor any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter      the gates of Jerusalem. 13  This was for the sins of her prophets      and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her ...

October 27, 2026, Lamentations 4:1-8 The Holy Stones Lie Scattered 4 How the gold has grown dim,      how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered      at the head of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion,      worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots,      the work of a potter's hands! 3 Even jackals offer the breast;      they nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel,      like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the nursing infant sticks      to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food,      but no one gives to them. 5 Those who once feasted on delicacies      perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple      embrace ash heaps. 6 For the cha...

October 26, 2026, Lamentations 3:49-66 49  “My eyes will flow without ceasing,      without respite, 50  until the  Lord  from heaven      looks down and sees; 51  my eyes cause me grief      at the fate of all the daughters of my city. 52  “I have been hunted like a bird      by those who were my enemies without cause; 53  they flung me alive into the pit [ d ]      and cast stones on me; 54  water closed over my head;      I said, ‘I am lost.’ 55  “I called on your name, O  Lord ,      from the depths of the pit; 56  you heard my plea, ‘Do not close      your ear to my cry for help!’ 57  You came near when I called on you;      you said, ‘Do not fear!’ 58  “You have taken up my cause, O Lord;...

October 25, 2026, Lamentations 3:37-48   37 Who has spoken and it came to pass,      unless the Lord has commanded it? 38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High      that good and bad come? 39 Why should a living man complain,      a man, about the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us test and examine our ways,      and return to the Lord ! 41 Let us lift up our hearts and hands      to God in heaven: 42 “We have transgressed and rebelled,      and you have not forgiven. 43 “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,      killing without pity; 44 you have wrapped yourself with a cloud      so that no prayer can pass through. 45 You have made us scum and garbage      among the peoples. 46 “All our enemies      open their mouths against us; 47 panic and ...

October 24, 2026, Lamentations 3:19-36 19  Remember my affliction and my wanderings,      the wormwood and the gall! 20  My soul continually remembers it      and is bowed down within me. 21  But this I call to mind,      and therefore I have hope: 22  The steadfast love of the  Lord  never ceases; [ c ]      his mercies never come to an end; 23  they are new every morning;      great is your faithfulness. 24  “The  Lord  is my portion,” says my soul,      “therefore I will hope in him.” 25  The  Lord  is good to those who wait for him,      to the soul who seeks him. 26  It is good that one should wait quietly      for the salvation of the  Lord . 27  It is good for a man that he bear      ...

October 23, 2026, Lamentations 3:1-18 Great Is Your Faithfulness 3  I am the man who has seen affliction      under the rod of his wrath; 2  he has driven and brought me      into darkness without any light; 3  surely against me he turns his hand      again and again the whole day long. 4  He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;      he has broken my bones; 5  he has besieged and enveloped me      with bitterness and tribulation; 6  he has made me dwell in darkness      like the dead of long ago. 7  He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;      he has made my chains heavy; 8  though I call and cry for help,      he shuts out my prayer; 9  he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;      he has made my paths cr...

October 22, 2026, Lamentations 2:1-22 The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity 2  How the Lord in his anger      has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth      the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool      in the day of his anger. 2  The Lord has swallowed up without mercy      all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down      the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor      the kingdom and its rulers. 3  He has cut down in fierce anger      all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand      in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,      consuming all around. 4...