You have made us, O
God,
and we are yours,
your people,
the sheep of your
pasture.
You have compassion
for us,
feeding us when we
are hungry.
In you we live and
move
and have our being.
Would you then kill
in anger because a man
touched a holy object
to keep if from
falling?
I cannot think so.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 122; 149; 100; 63
2 Sam. 5:22-6:11
Acts 17:16-34
Mark 8:1-10
Selected Verses
Ps. 100:3
Know that the LORD is God.
It is he that made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
It is he that made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
2 Sam. 6:7-8a
The anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God
struck him there because he reached out his hand to the ark; and he died there
beside the ark of God. David was angry
because the LORD had burst forth with an outburst upon Uzzah…
Acts 17:28a
"…For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’ …"
[Paul to philosophers in Athens]
Mark 8:1-2
In those days when there was again a great crowd without
anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them, "I have
compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and
have nothing to eat. …"
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