1.1 KiB
Morning
Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see we beseech thee, we are all thy people. -- Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. -- It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
1 Pet 5:6; Prov 16:5; Isa 64:8,9; Jer 31:18,19; Lam 3:27; Job 5:6,7,