Almighty God, righteous and holy king over creation, may our hearts rise in anger and lamentation at the sight of injustice, that we would be moved by what moves you and share in your righteous indignation, thus being compelled to right the wrongs of this world and bring joy to all the people you love, through Jesus our Lord, who taught Israel to love well and now reigns over all things with you and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
‘Hear this, you who trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land… Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who lives in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?’ – Amos 8:4,8