Our God, our Maker, our God and King,

we are glad in you; we worship you.

Though we say we need nothing,

we have prospered and are rich,

make us know we are wretched,

pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

Make us humble, contrite in spirit,

that we may tremble at your word.

Perhaps then people will begin to ask us,

are you not the ones who used to sit and beg?

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 97; 149; 27; 93

Isa. 66:1-2, 22-33

Rev. 3:14-22

John 9:1-12, 35-38

Selected Verses

Ps. 149:2

Let Israel be glad in its Maker;
let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

Isa. 66:2b

But this is the one to whom I will look,
to the humble and contrite in spirit,
who trembles at my word.

Rev. 3:17

"…For you say, 'I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.' You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. …"

John 9:8

The neighbors and those who had seen [the man who had been blind] before as a beggar began to ask, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"