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 […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 16, Year C
First Reading Jeremiah 1:4–10 (track one) 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 […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 15, Year C
First Reading Isaiah 5:1–7 (track one) 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 built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 14, Year C
First Reading Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 (track one, omitted verses in italics) The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: “Children have I reared […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 13, Year C
First Reading Hosea 11:1–11 (track one) 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 […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 12, Year C
First Reading Hosea 1:2–10 (track one) 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 […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 11, Year C
First Reading Amos 8:1–12 (track one) 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 […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 10, Year C
First Reading Amos 7:7–17 (track one) 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 […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 9, Year C
First Reading 2 Kings 5:1–14 (track one) 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 […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 8, Year C
First Reading 2 Kings 2:1–2, 6-14 omitted verses in italics (track 1) 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 sent me as far as Bethel.” But […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 7, Year C
(All Divergences will include both Tracks One and Two going forward.) First Reading (Track One) 1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Trinity Sunday, Year C
First Reading Proverbs 8:1–4, 22-31 Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – The Feast of Pentecost, Year C
First Reading Genesis 11:1–9 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, […]
