WOE!
Reading: Jeremiah 23:1-6 Proper 11/B 7/21/24 By the Rev. Karen Faye Siegfriedt “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! Says the Lord.” (Jer. 23:1) WOE is the operating word in today’s reading from the prophet Jeremiah. Woe is translated from the Hebrew word HOY ( הוֹי). This word expresses dissatisfaction, pain, grief, affliction, wretchedness, calamity, or trouble. Woe can be used as an exclamation of judgment on others or misfortune on oneself. It can be used…