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  1. September 14 - Be Gracious to Me

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    09/14/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    חנן - O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled. My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long? PSALM 6:1–3
    September 14 - Be Gracious to Me

  2. September 13 - God’s Beloved Ones

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    09/13/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    חסיד - O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him. PSALM 4:2–3
    September 13 - God’s Beloved Ones

  3. September 12 - Blessed Is the Man

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    09/12/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    אשׁרי - Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. PSALM 1:1–2
    September 12 - Blessed Is the Man

  4. September 11 - Feasting on Leviathan

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    09/11/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    לויתן - “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?" JOB 41:1–2
    September 11 - Feasting on Leviathan

  5. September 10 - Seeing God in the Flesh

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    09/10/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    בשׂר - "For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!" JOB 19:25–27
    September 10 - Seeing God in the Flesh

  6. September 9 - Gnashing of Teeth

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    09/09/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    חרק - He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me. Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me. JOB 16:9–10
    September 9 - Gnashing of Teeth

  7. September 8 - Miserable Comforters

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    09/08/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    עמל - Then Job answered and said: “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all." JOB 16:1–2
    September 8 - Miserable Comforters

  8. September 7 - Fashion or Hurt? Job’s Painful Pun

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    09/07/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    עצב - Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? JOB 10:8–11
    September 7 - Fashion or Hurt? Job’s Painful Pun

  9. September 6 - Casting Lots

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    09/06/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    פורים - Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them. But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. ESTHER 9:24–26
    September 6 - Casting Lots

  10. September 5 - The Walls of Jerusalem

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    09/05/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    חומה - And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres. NEHEMIAH 12:27
    September 5 - The Walls of Jerusalem

  11. September 4 - Ezra: Student and Teacher of Torah

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    09/04/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    דרשׁ - Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given... Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. EZRA 7:6, 10
    September 4 - Ezra: Student and Teacher of Torah

  12. September 3 - Divine Love

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    09/03/21
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    אהב - [The Queen of Sheba said to Solomon], "Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the Lord your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.” 2 CHRONICLES 9:8
    September 3 - Divine Love