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JULY 19
up early and sending them, because He had Psalm 86:1–5
compassion on His people and on His A Prayer of David.
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dwelling place. But they mocked the mes-
scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the B ow down Your ear, O LORD,
sengers of God, despised His words, and
hear me;
LORD arose against His people, till there was For I am poor and needy.
no remedy. 2 Preserve my life, for I am holy;
17 Therefore He brought against them the You are my God;
king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young Save Your servant who trusts in You!
men with the sword in the house of their 3 Be merciful to me, O Lord,
sanctuary, and had no compassion on young For I cry to You all day long.
man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; He 4 Rejoice the soul of Your servant,
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gave them all into his hand. And all the arti- For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
cles from the house of God, great and small, 5 For You, Lord, are good, and ready to
the treasures of the house of the LORD, and forgive,
the treasures of the king and of his leaders, And abundant in mercy to all those
all these he took to Babylon. Then they who call upon You.
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burned the house of God, broke down the Proverbs 21:13–14
wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with
fire, and destroyed all its precious posses- 13 Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of
sions. And those who escaped from the the poor
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sword he carried away to Babylon, where Will also cry himself and not be heard.
they became servants to him and his sons 14 A gift in secret pacifies anger,
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until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to ful- And a bribe behind the back, strong
fill the word of the LORD by the mouth of wrath.
Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her
Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she Acts 21:1–17
kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. Now it came to pass, that when we had
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of
Persia, that the word of the LORD by the 21 departed from them and set sail, running
a straight course we came to Cos, the follow-
mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the ing day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of 2 And finding a ship sailing over to Phoenicia,
Persia, so that he made a proclamation we went aboard and set sail. When we had
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throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in sighted Cyprus, we passed it on the left, sailed
writing, saying,
to Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship
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23 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: was to unload her cargo. And finding disci-
All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD ples, we stayed there seven days. They told
God of heaven has given me. And He Paul through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusa-
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has commanded me to build Him a lem. When we had come to the end of those
house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. days, we departed and went on our way; and
Who is among you of all His people? they all accompanied us, with wives and chil-
May the LORD his God be with him, and dren, till we were out of the city. And we knelt
let him go up!

21:2 finding a ship…Phoenicia. Realizing
he would never reach Jerusalem in time for
Pentecost if he continued to hug the coast,
36:11–21 The reign of Zedekiah, a.k.a. Paul decided to risk sailing directly across the
Mattaniah (ca.597–586 B.C.).Jeremiah prophe- Mediterranean Sea to Tyre (v.3).The ship they
sied during this reign (Jer. 1:3) and wrote embarked on would have been considerably
Lamentations to mourn the destruction of larger than the small coastal vessels on which
Jerusalem and the temple in 586 B.C.Ezekiel they had been sailing.The ship that later took
received his commission during this reign Paul on his ill-fated voyage to Rome held 276
(Ezek. 1:1) and prophesied from 592 B.C.to his people (27:37); this one was probably of
death in 560 B.C. comparable size.

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