Psalm 51:17-19
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17 The sacrifice acceptable to God[a] is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.(A)
18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
rebuild the walls of Jerusalem;(B)
19 then you will delight in right sacrifices,
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.(C)
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- 51.17 Or My sacrifice, O God,
Lamentations 1:1
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The Deserted City
1 How lonely sits the city
that once was full of people!
How like a widow she has become,
she that was great among the nations!
She that was a princess among the provinces
has become subject to forced labor.(A)
Lamentations 1:6
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6 From daughter Zion has departed
all her majesty.
Her princes have become like stags
that find no pasture;
they fled without strength
before the pursuer.(A)
Lamentations 1:12
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12 Is it nothing to you,[a] all you who pass by?
Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
which was brought upon me,
which the Lord inflicted
on the day of his fierce anger.(A)
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- 1.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
2 Corinthians 1:3
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Paul’s Thanksgiving after Affliction
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation,(A)
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2 Corinthians 1:5
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5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.(A)
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Mark 11:12-25
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Jesus Curses the Fig Tree
12 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.(A) 14 He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
15 Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves, 16 and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. 17 He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written,
‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’?
But you have made it a den of robbers.”(B)
18 And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him, for they were afraid of him because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching.(C) 19 And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples[a] went out of the city.
The Lesson from the Withered Fig Tree
20 In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.(D) 21 Then Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”(E) 22 Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.[b](F) 23 Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and if you do not doubt in your heart but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you.(G) 24 So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received[c] it, and it will be yours.(H)
25 “Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.”[d](I)
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Psalm 69:16-18
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16 Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good;
according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.(A)
17 Do not hide your face from your servant,
for I am in distress—make haste to answer me.(B)
18 Draw near to me; redeem me;
set me free because of my enemies.
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