Guardian Angels

5Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel. 6You were not sold to the nations for destruction, but because you moved God to wrath, you were delivered to your adversaries. 7For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God. 8You forgot the everlasting God who brought you up. You also grieved Jerusalem, who nursed you. 9For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and said, “Listen, you who dwell near Zion; for God has brought upon me great mourning. 10For I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them. 11For with joy I nourished them, but sent them away with weeping and mourning. 12Let no man rejoice over me, a widow and forsaken by many. For the sins of my children, I am left desolate, because they turned away from the law of God

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27Take courage, my children, and cry to God; for you will be remembered by him who has brought this upon you. 28For as it was your decision to go astray from God, return and seek him ten times more. 29For he who brought these calamities upon you will bring you everlasting joy again with your salvation.

32The humble have seen it, and are glad.

You who seek after God, let your heart live.

33For the LORD hears the needy,

and doesn’t despise his captive people.

34Let heaven and earth praise him;

the seas, and everything that moves therein!

35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah.

They shall settle there, and own it.

36The children also of his servants shall inherit it.

Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

1In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” 2Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them 3and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. 4Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. 5Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

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10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.