Divergence on the Lectionary – Third Sunday of Advent, Year A
First Reading Isaiah 35:1-10 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus; it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD, […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – The Second Sunday of Advent, Year A
First Reading Isaiah 11:1–10 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – The First Sunday of Advent, Year A
First Reading Isaiah 2:1–5 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 29/Christ the King, Year C
First Reading Jeremiah 23:1–6 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the LORD. Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 28, Year C
First Reading Isaiah 65:17–25 (track one) “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness. […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 27, Year C
First Reading Haggai 1:15b-2:9 (track one) In the second year of Darius the king. In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – All Saints, Year C
First Reading Daniel 7:1–3, 15-18 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter. Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 25, Year C (track one)
First Reading Joel 2:23–32 (track one) “Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before. “The threshing floors shall be full of grain; the vats […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 24, Year C
First Reading Jeremiah 31:27–34 (track one) “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 23, Year C
First Reading Jeremiah 29:1, 4–7 (track one) These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. This was after King Jeconiah and the […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 22, Year C
First Reading Lamentations 1:1–6 (track one) How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave. She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all […]
Divergence on the Lectionary, Proper 21, Year C
First Reading Jeremiah 32:1–3a, 6-15 (track one) The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 20, Year C
First Reading Jeremiah 8:18–9:1 (track one) My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me. Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: “Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 19, Year C
First Reading (track one, omitted verses in italics) Jeremiah 4:11–12, 22-28 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse, a wind too full for this comes for me. Now […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 18, Year C
First Reading Jeremiah 18:1–18 (track one) The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 17, Year C
First Reading Jeremiah 2:4–13 (track one) Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel. Thus says the LORD: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless? They did not say, ‘Where […]
