When Will these Plagues Be Ended?--June 18, 2017

O God, you work vindication

and justice for all who are oppressed.

And you hear the groaning

of the little ones in South Sudan--

 starving, and their mothers have no milk;

not your will, that one of these should be lost.

We have not listened well to their groaning;

and if we hear, we only wonder--

when will these plagues

be ended?

Show us, we have a role to play

in ending them.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 103; 150; 117; 139

Exod. 6:2-13; 7:1-6

Rev. 15:1-8

Matt. 18:1-14

Selected Verses

Ps. 103:6

The LORD works vindication
          and justice for all who are oppressed. 

Exod. 6:5

I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians are holding as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.

Rev. 15:1

Then I saw another portent in heaven, great and amazing: seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is ended.

Matt. 18:14

"…So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost."  [Jesus to his disciples]