For us, the boundary lines have fallen
in pleasant places; we have a goodly heritage.
We have been invited to the banquet; or so it seems.
Yet we have done our share of trampling the poor,
or have reaped benefits from the trampling.
Do we deserve to live in fine houses?
Do we deserve mercy, peace,
and love in abundance?
Amos, your words
disturb us.
in pleasant places; we have a goodly heritage.
We have been invited to the banquet; or so it seems.
Yet we have done our share of trampling the poor,
or have reaped benefits from the trampling.
Do we deserve to live in fine houses?
Do we deserve mercy, peace,
and love in abundance?
Amos, your words
disturb us.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 102; 148; 130; 16
Amos 5:1-17
Jude 1-16
Matt. 22:1-14
Selected Verses
Ps. 16:6
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
I have a goodly heritage.
Amos 5:11
Therefore because you trample on the poor
and take from them levies of grain,
you have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not live in them;
you have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.
Jude 2
May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.
Matt. 22:9
"'…Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.' …" [The king to his servants, in Jesus' parable of the wedding banquet]
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