‘O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me!For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of slavery;and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. From Micah 6:1-4,6-8, NRSV The line “O my people, what have I done to you?”…
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And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, ‘Make ready quickly three measures of choice flour, knead it, and make cakes.’ Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, who hastened to prepare it. Then he took curds and milk and the calf…
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Alas for those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds!…. Therefore, thus says the Lord:Now, I am devising against this family an evil from which you cannot remove your necks;and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time. From Micah 2:1-5, NRSV The prophet Micah speaks of the downfall that…
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In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’ Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord: ‘Remember now, O Lord,…
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Your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy!For your dew is a radiant dew, and the earth will give birth to those long dead. From Isaiah 26:7-9,12,16-19, NRSV At the end of psalm which begins with some thoughts about how to live righteous lives and progresses through…
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Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger— the club in their hands is my fury!Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him,to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.But this is not what he intends, nor does he have…
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Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Fuller’s Field, and say to him, Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smouldering stumps…
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For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his faithful ones.Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; From Proverbs 21:1-6, 10-13, NRSV Today’s…
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Surely, this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too hard for you, nor is it too far away. It is not in heaven, that you should say,‘Who will go up to heaven for us, and get it for us so that we may hear it and observe it?’ Neither is it beyond…
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Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: ‘Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.’ Then I heard the voice…
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