who destroy and scatter your sheep!
Can’t you see what they are doing:
bombs, war, rape, torture, plunder?
Why are you so far from helping
and from the words of groaning?
God, what then are we to think—
Are you for sheep or shepherd?
O, you did not withhold your Son;
but gave him up for all your sheep.
With him help sheep and shepherd
abide in him, as he abides in them.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130
Jer. 23:1-8
Rom. 8:28-39
John 6:52-59
Selected Verses
Ps. 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
Jer. 23:1
Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.
Rom. 8:31-32
What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else?
John 6:56
“…Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. …” [Jesus to those in the synagogue who complained against him]
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