you govern all creation with your strong yet tender care:
Come and show your people the way to salvation
Isaiah 11:1-9
1A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
2The spirit of the LORD shall rest on him,
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
3His delight shall be in the fear of the LORD.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see,
or decide by what his ears hear;
4but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
5Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist,
and faithfulness the belt around his loins.
6The wolf shall live with the lamb,
the leopard shall lie down with the kid,
the calf and the lion and the fatling together,
and a little child shall lead them.
7The cow and the bear shall graze,
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder's den.
9They will not hurt or destroy
on all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11: 2-3 is one of the scriptures said to apply to the first O Antiphon (along with Isaiah 28:29, Proverbs 8: 1-36, and John 1:1-5). I wonder if it wouldn't be more appropriate to read through verse 9. Jesus came as the wisdom of God, and in his reign, all things will be put right. Creation will once again be properly ordered and hurt and destruction a thing of the past.
As the winter solstice approaches and the days grow literally darker, the spiritual darkness of the world seems more evident. Every year by December it seems to me that the world has been sated with turmoil that has built up over the year. It sags under the weight of all that is wrong and out of place. Advent reminds us that all is and will be well in the Kingdom where wisdom and righteousness reigns. Come Lord Jesus!
and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
2The spirit of the LORD shall rest on him,
the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
3His delight shall be in the fear of the LORD.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see,
or decide by what his ears hear;
4but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
5Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist,
and faithfulness the belt around his loins.
6The wolf shall live with the lamb,
the leopard shall lie down with the kid,
the calf and the lion and the fatling together,
and a little child shall lead them.
7The cow and the bear shall graze,
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder's den.
9They will not hurt or destroy
on all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11: 2-3 is one of the scriptures said to apply to the first O Antiphon (along with Isaiah 28:29, Proverbs 8: 1-36, and John 1:1-5). I wonder if it wouldn't be more appropriate to read through verse 9. Jesus came as the wisdom of God, and in his reign, all things will be put right. Creation will once again be properly ordered and hurt and destruction a thing of the past.
As the winter solstice approaches and the days grow literally darker, the spiritual darkness of the world seems more evident. Every year by December it seems to me that the world has been sated with turmoil that has built up over the year. It sags under the weight of all that is wrong and out of place. Advent reminds us that all is and will be well in the Kingdom where wisdom and righteousness reigns. Come Lord Jesus!
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