Do you bring the way
of the wicked to ruin, God?
I believe that you watch
over the stranger,
uphold the orphan and
the widow,
and urge us to do
likewise,
but do you punish
if we fail?
If a tree bears
no fruit, do you cut
it down, and is your
day
of reckoning fast
approaching?
Great and amazing are
your deeds,
O God, and true and
just are your ways.
Forgive me, but
though I hold you in awe,
I believe that I love
you too much to fear you.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 42; 146; 102; 133
Zeph. 1:14-18
Rev. 14:14-15:8
Luke 13:1-9
Selected Verses
Ps. 146:9
The LORD watches over the strangers;
he upholds the orphan and the widow,
but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
he upholds the orphan and the widow,
but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Zeph. 1:14a
The great day of the LORD is near,
near and hastening fast…
near and hastening fast…
Rev. 15:2-3
And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mixed with
fire, and those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its
name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands. And they sing the song of Moses, the
servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Great and amazing are your
deeds, Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, King of the nations! …"
Luke 13:6-7
Then [Jesus] told this parable: "A man had a fig tree
planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.
So he said to the gardener, 'See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit
on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the
soil?'…"
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