The Daily DIP

“For it was you who created my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will praise you because I have been remarkably and wondrously made. Your works are wondrous, and I know this very well.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭CSB‬‬ “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you ou...

““You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. “Because my house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.” ‭‭Haggai‬ ‭1‬:‭9‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“On that day you will not be put to shame because of everything you have done in rebelling against me. For then I will remove from among you your jubilant, arrogant people, and you will never again be haughty on my holy mountain. I will leave a meek and humble people among you, and they will take refuge in the name of the Lord.” ‭‭Zephaniah‬ ‭3‬:‭11‬-‭12‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the flocks disappear from the pen and there are no herds in the stalls, yet I will celebrate in the Lord; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation! The Lord my Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like those of a deer and enables me to walk on mountain heights!...

“The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath his feet.” ‭‭Nahum‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“Mankind, he has told each of you what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God.” ‭‭Micah‬ ‭6‬:‭8‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“God saw their actions — that they had turned from their evil ways  — so God relented from the disaster he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.” ‭‭Jonah‬ ‭3‬:‭10‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev. Saviors will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the hill country of Esau, and the kingdom will be the Lord’s.” ‭‭Obadiah‬ ‭1‬:‭20‬-‭21‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream.” ‭‭Amos‬ ‭5‬:‭23‬-‭24‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“After this I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity; then your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will have dreams, and your young men will see visions. I will even pour out my Spirit on the male and female slaves in those days.” ‭‭Joel‬ ‭2‬:‭28‬-‭29‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred! I will not vent the full fury of my anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not come in rage.” ‭‭Hosea‬ ‭11‬:‭8‬-‭9‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“I issue a decree that in all my royal dominion, people must tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For he is the living God, and he endures forever; his kingdom will never be destroyed, and his dominion has no end. He rescues and delivers; he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for he has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”” ‭‭Daniel‬ ‭6‬:‭26‬-‭27‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice sounded like the roar of a huge torrent, and the earth shone with his glory.” ‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭43‬:‭2‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison. I continually remember them and have become depressed. Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for his mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness! I say, “The Lord is my portion, therefore I will put my hope in him.”” ‭‭Lamentati...

““Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days” — the Lord’s declaration. “I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them”  — this is the Lord’s decl...

“As a mother comforts her son, so I will comfort you, and you will be comforted in Jerusalem. You will see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the Lord’s power will be revealed to his servants, but he will show his wrath against his enemies.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭66‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death; jealousy is as unrelenting as Sheol. Love’s flames are fiery flames  — an almighty flame!” ‭‭Song of Songs‬ ‭8‬:‭6‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: fear God and keep his commands, because this is for all humanity. For God will bring every act to judgment, including every hidden thing, whether good or evil.” ‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭12‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭1‬:‭7‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers! Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night. He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams that bears its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped, saying: Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will leave this life. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” ‭‭Job‬ ‭1‬:‭20‬-‭21‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s family will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.”” ‭‭Esther‬ ‭4‬:‭14‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“Please remember what you commanded your servant Moses: “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples. But if you return to me and carefully observe my commands, even though your exiles were banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I chose to have my name dwell.”” ‭‭Nehemiah‬ ‭1‬:‭8‬-‭9‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: The Lord, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a temple at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the Lord his God be with him.” ‭‭2 Chronicles‬ ‭36‬:‭23‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam committed and did not turn away from them. Finally, the Lord removed Israel from his presence just as he had declared through all his servants the prophets. So Israel has been exiled to Assyria from their homeland to this very day.” ‭‭2 Kings‬ ‭17‬:‭22‬-‭23‬ ‭CSB‬‬