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Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4

​Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost 1:1The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw. 2O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? 3Why do you make me see wrongdoing and look at trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. 4So the law becomes slack and…

Proverbs 14:12-31

​12There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death. 13Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief. 14The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve. 15The simple believe everything, but the clever consider their steps. 16The wise are cautious and turn…