October 25: Psalm 43:5; Psalm 44:23; Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah 49:14–15; Isaiah 54:8; Lamentations 3:17–18; Jonah 2:4; 2 Corinthians 4:8–9; Psalm 4:6; Psalm 63:1; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 2:22–23; Isaiah 41:17; Isaiah 44:3; Jeremiah 2:13; Matthew 5:6; John 6:37 - a podcast by Crossway

“I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.”

Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”—I have forgotten what happiness is; so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord.”—Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever!—Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?—“In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer.

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.—We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

Psalm 43:5 (Listen)

5   Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you in turmoil within me?
  Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation and my God.

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Psalm 44:23 (Listen)

23   Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?
    Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever!

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Isaiah 40:27 (Listen)

27   Why do you say, O Jacob,
    and speak, O Israel,
  “My way is hidden from the LORD,
    and my right is disregarded by my God”?

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Isaiah 49:14–15 (Listen)

14   But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me;
    my Lord has forgotten me.”


15   “Can a woman forget her nursing child,
    that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
  Even these may forget,
    yet I will not forget you.

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Isaiah 54:8 (Listen)

8   In overflowing anger for a moment
    I hid my face from you,
  but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,”
    says the LORD, your Redeemer.

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Lamentations 3:17–18 (Listen)

17   my soul is bereft of peace;
    I have forgotten what happiness¹ is;
18   so I say, “My endurance has perished;
    so has my hope from the LORD.”

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Jonah 2:4 (Listen)

4   Then I said, ‘I am driven away
    from your sight;
  yet I shall again look
    upon your holy temple.’

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2 Corinthians 4:8–9 (Listen)

8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;

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When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them.

There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?”— What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest…. All is vanity and a striving after wind.—“They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”

“Whoever comes to me I will never cast out.”—“I will pour water on the thirsty land.”—“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.”—O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 4:6 (Listen)

6   There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?
    Lift up the light of your face upon us, O LORD!”

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Psalm 63:1 (Listen)

My Soul Thirsts for You

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

63   O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
    my soul thirsts for you;
  my flesh faints for you,
    as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

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Ecclesiastes 2:17 (Listen)

17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Ecclesiastes 2:22–23 (Listen)

22 What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? 23 For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.

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Isaiah 41:17 (Listen)

17   When the poor and needy seek water,
    and there is none,
    and their tongue is parched with thirst,
  I the LORD will answer them;
    I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

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Isaiah 44:3 (Listen)

3   For I will pour water on the thirsty land,
    and streams on the dry ground;
  I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring,
    and my blessing on your descendants.

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Jeremiah 2:13 (Listen)

13   for my people have committed two evils:
  they have forsaken me,
    the fountain of living waters,
  and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
    broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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Matthew 5:6 (Listen)

6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

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John 6:37 (Listen)

37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

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