You deliver those who love you,
protect those who know your name.
For example, you raised up a left-handed
Benjaminite to deliver Israel from the Moabites.
From our limited perspective, there are exceptions.
Jesus knew your name, cried it out in a loud voice.
(As he told the apostles, it is not for us to know
what you have set by your own authority.)
And we confess it was through Jesus,
in our eyes forsaken on the cross,
that you delivered us.
protect those who know your name.
For example, you raised up a left-handed
Benjaminite to deliver Israel from the Moabites.
From our limited perspective, there are exceptions.
Jesus knew your name, cried it out in a loud voice.
(As he told the apostles, it is not for us to know
what you have set by your own authority.)
And we confess it was through Jesus,
in our eyes forsaken on the cross,
that you delivered us.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 65; 147:1-11; 125; 91
Judg. 3:12-30
Acts 1:1-14
Matt. 27:45-54
Selected Verses
Ps. 91:14
Those who love me, I will deliver;
I will protect those who know my name.
Judg. 3:15a
But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man.
Acts 1:7
[The risen Jesus] replied [to the apostles], "It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. …"
Matt. 27:46
And about three o'clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
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