Dear God, we pray, reach
down from on high,
take us, draw us out of mighty waters.
We have made
iniquitous decrees, oppressive
laws to turn aside
the needy from justice
and to rob poor
people of their rights.
We have lost the
straight road and gone astray,
without a speechless
donkey to warn us.
Give us grace to
repent and to bear
fruit worthy of
repentance.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 18:1-20; 147:12-20; 126; 62
Isa. 9:18-10:4
2 Peter 2:10b-16
Matt. 3:1-12
Selected Verses
Ps. 18:16
[The LORD] reached down from on high, he took me;
he
drew me out of mighty waters.
Isa. 10:1-2
Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees,
who write oppressive statutes,
to turn aside the needy from justice
and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be your spoil,
and that you may make the orphans your prey!
who write oppressive statutes,
to turn aside the needy from justice
and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be your spoil,
and that you may make the orphans your prey!
2 Peter 2:15-16
They have left the straight road and have gone astray,
following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of doing wrong, but
was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with a human
voice and restrained the prophet's madness.
Matt. 3:8
"…Bear fruit worthy of repentance. …"
[John the Baptist to Pharisees and Sadducees who had come for
baptism]
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