Labor Day.
Today's reading in Isaiah is fitting for the occasion . . .
1 Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
2 to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people,
making widows their prey
and robbing the fatherless.
3 What will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?
Where will you leave your riches?
4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives
or fall among the slain.
Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
his hand is still upraised. —Isaiah 10:1-4
And this from Proverbs . . .
9 A generous man will himself be blessed,
for he shares his food with the poor. . . .
16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
and he who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty. —Proverbs 29:9, 16
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