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A reading from the prophecy of Habakkuk (Chapter 1:2-3; 2:2-4) “How long O Lord? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, ‘Violence!’ but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin; why must I see misery?” Habakkuk was one of the 12 minor prophets of Israel and, like most, he.

A reading from the prophecy of Amos Chapter 6:1a, 4-7) During this period in the history of Israel, the eighth century before the birth of Jesus, the country is surrounded by hostile foreign powers: Assyria to the north and Egypt to the south. Meanwhile, Israel’s leaders are only into their own.

A reading from the prophecy of Amos (Chapter 8:4-7) We tend to think of ancient Israel as a poor nation, and that is true. Most of the people were poor peasant farmers who barely got by and often were vulnerable to the whims of their landlords, seed providers, and more well-off merchants who.