Daniel 9:3 “So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.” Observation: Daniel used more than thirty phrases in this chapter associating himself with Israel’s sins. Such identification is the perfect...

Psalm 145:5–6 “On the glorious splendor of Your majesty and on Your wonderful works, I will meditate. Men shall speak of the power of Your awesome acts, and I will tell of Your greatness.” Observation: Remember and tell. Meditate and shout. Praise His works from one...

Ezekiel 36:5 “Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations … who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy.” Observation: To this point Ezekiel had focused on the depth and justification of God’s anger...

Ezekiel 33:12 “The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able...

Daniel 4:37 “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.” Observation: This may be the only chapter of the Bible written by a pagan king....

Revelation 16:7 “And I heard the altar saying, ‘Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.’ ” Observation: Seven angels were pouring seven bowls of wrath upon the earth, and each bowl contained terrifying, though merely temporal, judgments...

Lamentations 3:55–58 “I called on Your name O Lord, out of the lowest pit. You have heard my voice…You drew near when I called on You; You said, ‘Do not fear.’ O Lord, You pled my soul’s cause; You have redeemed my life.” Observation: God used this passage to minister...

Revelation 14:7 “And he said with a loud voice, ‘Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of water.’ ” Observation: John’s revelation had reached the point where an...

Psalm 48:13 “Go through her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.” Observation: This wonderful psalm of praise and thanksgiving ends with this: “We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God, … So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; … Walk about...

Revelation 12:9–11 “And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who was called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, ‘Now...