The Hope of Earth and Sea--July 27, 2022

[Adapted from my journal of July 28, 2004]

 

O you who answer our prayers with deliverance, 

darkness has come over the whole world; 

with awesome deeds, deliver us.  

 

God of our salvation, the hope of earth and sea,

come to us with your saving power, 

establish our hopes anew.

 

Teach us to wait for what you have promised;

subdue the pandemic, feed the starving, 

that suffering peoples may rest.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 65; 147:1-11; 125; 91

Judg. 3:12-30

Acts 1:1-14

Matt. 27:45-54

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 65:5

By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,

            O God of our salvation;

You are the hope of all the ends of the earth

            and of the highest seas.

 

Judg. 3:30

So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel.  And the land had rest eighty years.

 

Acts 1:4

While staying with them, [the risen Jesus]s ordered [the apostles] not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Father.

 

Matt. 27:45

From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.