April 11, 2026 PORTALS OF PRAYER READINGS
Daniel 6:10-22
10 When Daniel knew that the document had
been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber
open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed
and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously. 11 Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel
making petition and plea before his God. 12 Then
they came near and said before the king, concerning the injunction, “O king!
Did you not sign an injunction, that anyone who makes petition to any god or
man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of
lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing stands fast, according to the
law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.” 13 Then they answered and said before the king,
“Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king,
or the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”
14 Then the king, when he heard these
words, was much distressed and set his mind to deliver Daniel. And he labored
till the sun went down to rescue him. 15 Then
these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Know, O king,
that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or ordinance that
the king establishes can be changed.”
16 Then the king commanded, and Daniel was
brought and cast into the den of lions. The king declared[a] to Daniel,
“May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!” 17 And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of
the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his
lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel. 18 Then the king went to his palace and spent the
night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.
19 Then, at break of day, the king arose
and went in haste to the den of lions. 20 As
he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish.
The king declared to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your
God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”
21 Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live
forever! 22 My God sent his angel and
shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found
blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”
Footnotes
- Daniel 6:16 Aramaic
answered and said; also verse 20
Psalm 7:1-5
In You Do I Take Refuge
A Shiggaion[a] of David,
which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a
Benjaminite.
7 O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;
save
me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,
rending
it in pieces, with none to deliver.
3 O Lord my God, if I have done this,
if
there is wrong in my hands,
4 if I have repaid my friend[b] with evil
or
plundered my enemy without cause,
5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake
it,
and
let him trample my life to the ground
and
lay my glory in the dust. Selah
Footnotes
Psalm 7:9-17
9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked
come to an end,
and
may you establish the righteous—
you who test the minds and hearts,[a]
O
righteous God!
10 My shield is with God,
who
saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
and
a God who feels indignation every day.
12 If a man[b] does not
repent, God[c] will whet
his sword;
he
has bent and readied his bow;
13 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making
his arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil
and
is pregnant with mischief
and
gives birth to lies.
15 He makes a pit, digging it out,
and
falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His mischief returns upon his own head,
and
on his own skull his violence descends.
17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
and
I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most
High.
Footnotes
- Psalm 7:9 Hebrew the
hearts and kidneys
- Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he
- Psalm 7:12 Hebrew he
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