[From Oct. 9 archive, 2008]
The days of
punishment have come,
the days of
recompense have come,
and how shall we
respond?
Because our iniquity
is great
shall our hostility
be great?
Shall we seek a
troublemaker
upon whom to place
the blame?
Shall we find an
agitator,
cry, “The prophet is
a fool?”
How long will we
assail him,
as we would a leaning
wall—
how long batter him,
till the tottering
fence falls down?
Or should we stand
behind the prophet,
weeping, and begin to
bathe his feet,
kiss them as we dry
them with our hair
and anoint them with
our ointment
…because our iniquity
is great?
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 97; 147:12-20; 16; 62
Hosea 9:1-9
Acts 24:1-23
Luke 7:36-50
Selected Verses
Psalm 62:3
How long will you assail a person,
will you
batter your victim, all of you,
as you
would a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
Hosea 9:7
The days of punishment have come,
the days of
recompense have come;
Israel
cries,
“The prophet is a fool,
the man of
the spirit is mad!”
Because of your great iniquity,
your
hostility is great.
Acts 24:5
“…We have, in fact, found this man [Paul] a pestilent
fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader
of the sect of the Nazarenes. … ”
[Tertullus, attorney for the high priest, Ananias, speaking before
Governor Felix at Caesarea]
Luke 7:38
[A woman in the city, who was a sinner,] stood behind
[Jesus] at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to
dry them with her hair. Then she continued
kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment.
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