TRUTH-TELLING
(Isaiah 5:1-7)
Isaiah laid bare,
in euphemism and wordplay,*
Judah’s unjust ways.
Truth-telling is hard
to speak, to hear, to accept:
have we ears to hear?
What is my next step
righting injustice and wrong,
being reconciled?
Jeff Shrowder, 2025
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* The Hebrew words for justice and bloodshed sound very similar, as do the Hebrew words for righteousness and cry.