Divergence on the Lectionary, Proper 21, Year C (track one)
First Reading Jeremiah 32:1–3a, 6-15 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 of the […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 20, Year C (track one)
First Reading Jeremiah 8:18–9:1 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 anger with […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 19, Year C (track one)
First Reading 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 it is I who speak in […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 18, Year C (track one)
First Reading Jeremiah 18:1–18 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 clay was […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 17, Year C (track one)
First Reading Jeremiah 2:4–13 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 is the […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 16, Year C (track one)
First Reading Jeremiah 1:4–10 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 15, Year C (track one)
For a more easily printed version PDF version of this week’s Diversion CLICK HERE. First Reading Isaiah 5:1–7 Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 13, Year C (track one)
First Reading Hosea 11:1–11 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 12, Year C (track one)
First Reading Hosea 1:2–10 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.” So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 11, Year C (track one)
First Reading Amos 8:1–12 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them. […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 10, Year C (track one)
First Reading Amos 7:7–17 This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 9, Year C (track one)
First Reading 2 Kings 5:1–14 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. Now the Syrians on one of their […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 8, Year C (track 1)
First Reading 2 Kings 2:1–2, 6-14 (Omitted verses have been included in this and the next text in italics.) Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has […]
