In between Second Timothy and Titus we read two Psalms and one chapter of Jeremiah.
September 30: Psalm 113, Psalm 114, Jeremiah 31 (click on the chapter to begin reading).
Psalm 113. This Psalm is part of the “Hallel”, consisting of Psalm 113-118. Two are sung before and three after the Passover meal. It begins and ends with Hallelujah, and praises God how He lifts up the lowly, even the barren woman.
Psalm 114 is the second Psalm of the Hallel. In eight short verses it retells of God’s miracles of delivering them out of Egypt and into the promised land. Short and to the point.
Jeremiah 31 is a most remarkable chapter. Jeremiah in a dream hears God say “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love” and goes on promising that the remnant of Israel will be saved, Then, in verse 15 an abrupt change “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.” Then, back in the dream an even more remarkable statement “O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.” Then Jeremiah wakes up from his pleasant dream. God speaks on, promising mercy on Ephraim, future Prosperity to Israel, and promises the New Covenant: “But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”