The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions

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It's amazing that Puritan prayers from hundreds of years ago are still so applicable and powerful in modern times.

The pronouncement concerning the valley of vision: What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops? While the city abandons itself to demonstrations of frantic gaiety, in spite of the disgrace that has overtaken the country, Isaiah shuts himself up in solitary and inconsolable anguish. Thy power created the universe from nothing; Thy wisdom has managed all its multiple concerns, presiding over nations, families, individuals.Consequently in the Puritan tradition there are many written prayers and meditations which constitute an important corpus of inspiring devotional literature. Give me the collects out of the Book of Common Prayer any day before anything from The Valley of Vision. I hope to remind you that contentment in our role as homemakers begins with finding our satisfaction in Christ. The language of Isa 22:12-14, as to the infidelity and consequent utter ruin of the Jews, seems rather to foreshadow the destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in Zedekiah's reign, and cannot be restricted to Hezekiah's time [Lowth]. O LORD, I live here as a fish in a vessel of water, only enough to keep me alive, but in heaven I shall swim in the ocean.

There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.the raising of the blockade of Jerusalem, in consequence of Hezekiah’s ignominious submission to the terms of Sennacherib (see General Introd. Then it was revealed in my hearing by the LORD of hosts, “Surely for this iniquity, there will be no atonement for you, even to your death,” says the Lord GOD of hosts. Lead vocalist and co-producer Andy Hull says: “Making The Valley of Vision was an exciting idea of what the future could be for us in terms of how we create.