Lectionary Lab PREMIUM Edition for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

August 28, 2022

Comments by John Fairless

Jeremiah 2:4-13
In the Lord’s lament, as recorded by Jeremiah, we have represented the antithesis of worship — a word that has as its root meaning, “something that is heavy, weighty — worthy.” So, if worshiping God is a weighty matter, the Lord wonders why God’s people have gone after worthless things (things that are “light, of …