A Call To Repentance
Worship
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
Scriptures For The Lectionary Speaking Choir
Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
3 readers -- 1 middle-aged man, 1 middle-aged woman,
1 young man or woman
Key:
1 = middle-aged man
2 = middle-aged woman
3 = young man or woman
1: Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the
Lord is coming, it is near -- a day of darkness and gloom, a day
of clouds and thick darkness!
(1:) Like blackness spread upon the mountains a great and
powerful army comes; their like has never been from of old, nor
will be again after them in ages to come.
2: Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts
and not your clothing.
(2:) Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and
merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and
relents from punishing.
3: Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a
blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for
the Lord, your God?
1: Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn
assembly; gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble
the aged; gather the children, even infants at the breast. Let
the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her canopy.
3: Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the
ministers of the Lord, weep. Let them say, "Spare your people, O
Lord, and do not make your heritage a mockery, a byword among the
nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, 'Where is their
God'?"
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
3 readers -- 1 middle-aged man, 1 middle-aged woman,
1 young man or woman
Key:
1 = middle-aged man
2 = middle-aged woman
3 = young man or woman
1: Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the
Lord is coming, it is near -- a day of darkness and gloom, a day
of clouds and thick darkness!
(1:) Like blackness spread upon the mountains a great and
powerful army comes; their like has never been from of old, nor
will be again after them in ages to come.
2: Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts
and not your clothing.
(2:) Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and
merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and
relents from punishing.
3: Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a
blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for
the Lord, your God?
1: Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn
assembly; gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble
the aged; gather the children, even infants at the breast. Let
the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her canopy.
3: Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the
ministers of the Lord, weep. Let them say, "Spare your people, O
Lord, and do not make your heritage a mockery, a byword among the
nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, 'Where is their
God'?"
