Digging Deeper Daily: By Daily Bible Reading PodcastSample

LAMENTATIONS 3:
A warning for the modern times is here in chapter 2:

Lam. 2:14 NLT Your prophets have said
so many foolish things, false to the core.
They did not save you from exile
by pointing out your sins.
Instead, they painted false pictures,
filling you with false hope.

The last so poignant line from yesterday’s reading was,

22 … “The enemy has killed all the children
whom I carried and raised.”

Today Jeremiah again speaks in the first person.

PROVERBS 12b:
A favorite verse to introduce today’s proverbs:

Pro. 12:23 NLT The wise don't make a show of their knowledge,
but fools broadcast their foolishness.

EPHESIANS 2:
The first chapter has 4 instances of ‘joined with Christ’, and this chapter has seven.

In his first chapter, Paul wrote in a formal style and showed his enthusiasm for his topic by his use of long sentences in Greek. Verse 3-14 are one long sentence, with a cascade of phrases modifying other phrases. And verses 15-23 are another long sentence. Long sentences like that seem clearer to me in Greek than they do in English. Another notable place Paul does this is in Colossians.