While Waiting in Silence--Nov. 4, 2021

[From Nov. 8, 2007 archive]

 

When for you alone their souls waited in silence,

one saw horses standing among the myrtle trees,

and one heard a voice from heaven like the sound

of many waters and like loud thunder and even 

like the sound of harpists playing on their harps

before your throne, singing a new song of praise.

 

But Herod sat in silence, brooding upon his sin,

and the silence brought him troubling thoughts.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 97; 147:12-20; 16; 62

Zech. 1:7-17

Rev. 14:1-13

Matt. 14:1-12

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 62:1

For God alone my soul waits in silence;

            from him comes my salvation.

 

Zech. 1:10

So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, “[The horses standing among the myrtle trees] are those whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.”

 

Rev. 14:2-3a

And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps, and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders.

 

Matt. 14:1-2

At that time Herod the ruler heard reports about Jesus; and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he has been raised from the dead, and for this reason these powers are at work in him.”