Today's Reading | March 16, 2025
Psalm 88
Introduction Psalm 88: Today’s reading is an individual lament of someone who is suffering and appealing to God for help. In most psalms of lament, the complaints are balanced by expressions of trust in God, but here the writer concludes by telling God about being abandoned and left in darkness. Today’s Key Verse: Psalm 88:9b LORD, every day I call…
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