Shepherd Tending His Flock, Jean-François Millet, 1814-1875, Brooklyn Museum, NY

Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw. O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you, "Violence!" and you will not save? Why do you make me see wrong-doing and look at trouble?

Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. So, the law becomes slack, and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous; therefore, judgment comes forth

perverted. I will stand at my watchpost and station myself on the rampart; I will keep watch to see what he will say to me and what he will answer concerning my complaint.

Then the LORD answered me and said: Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so that a runner may read it. For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faithfulness.

Redeeming Sustainer, visit your people and pour out your strength and courage

upon us, that we may hurry to make you welcome not only in our concern for

others, but by serving them generously and faithfully in your name. Amen.

Millet, Jean François, 1814-1875. Shepherd Tending His Flock, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt

Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57156 [retrieved August 3, 2025]. Source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet, Shepherd Tending His Flock