Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 25, Year C (track one)
First Reading Joel 2:23–32 “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 shall overflow […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 24, Year C (track one)
First Reading Jeremiah 31:27–34 “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 down, to […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 23, Year C (track one)
First Reading Jeremiah 29:1, 4–7 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 queen mother, […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Proper 22, Year C (track one)
First Reading Lamentations 1:1–6 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 her lovers […]
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 […]
