FOCUS TEXT: HABAKKUK 1:1-4; 2:1-4  
The 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 wrongdoing 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 God will say to me, and what God will answer concerning my complaint.  2 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 faith.

ADDITIONAL TEXTS:
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?  The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?  When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh -- my adversaries and foes -- they shall stumble and fall.  Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up against me, yet I will be confident.  One thing I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: to live in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in [the LORD’S] temple.  For [the LORD] will hide me in [the LORD’S] shelter in the day of trouble; [the LORD] will conceal me under the cover of [the LORD’S] tent; [the LORD] will set me high on a rock….  Do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger, you who have been my help. Do not cast me off, do not forsake me, O God of my salvation!  If my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will take me up.  Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.  Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen against me, and they are breathing out violence.  I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.  Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!  
Psalm 27
 
See, the LORD’s hand is not too short to save, nor [the LORD’S] ear too dull to hear.  Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden God’s face from you so that God does not hear.  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness…. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.  Their feet run to evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways.  The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths. Their roads they have made crooked; no one who walks in them knows peace.
Isaiah 59:1-8
 
Suddenly, one of those with Jesus put his hand on his sword, drew it, and struck the slave of the high priest, cutting off his ear.  Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.”
Matthew 26:51-52  
 
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. God will dwell with them; they will be God’s peoples and God will be with them; God will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:3-4

ADDITIONAL LECTIONARY TEXTS: 
Isaiah 1:10-18
Psalm 119:137-144; 32:1-7
2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12
Luke 19:1-10

Texts are from the NRSV.