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Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year B, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox Press offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. The twelve volumes of this series cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints' Day. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays—one...

lectionary leaves out verses 5–7, which ascribe to Israel a collective priestly function for the Gentile world (v. 6a; cf. Exod. 19:6) and promise inordinate wealth from the nations (vv. 6b–7). Zion will receive a “double portion” in correspondence to the double “penalty” Zion paid in exile (40:2). The lection resumes in verses 8–11, which opens with divine discourse (vv. 8–9) and shifts to Zion’s voice (vv. 10–11), finalizing the passage. The passage, in short, begins with a pronouncement of good
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