Hymn of Reversal or Repentance?

I've been looking for songs in Luke.  The one's I found so far have been about Jesus and how his "first advent" has changed the world's fortunes.  Mary's in the middle of her Magnificat sings 

He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,and has exalted the lowly.  He has filled the hungry with good things,and the rich He has sent away empty.

You can feel things changing.  Mary sings from the perspective of a faithful Hebrew maiden and she credits God having done great things.  Her confidence grows from this recognition.

She is how we come to see Jesus as joined to this eternal purpose of God for reconciliation and justice.

Simeon's song turns this fortune forward and by celebrating his own "departure" out off waiting and hoping and yearning identifies for us the saving vision and new light that enlightens the nations and glorifies Israel.

Lord, you now have set your servant free

to go in peace as you have promised;

For these eyes of mine have seen the Savior,

whom you have prepared for all the world to see:

A Light to enlighten the nations,

and the glory of your people Israel.

Simeon is how we come to see Jesus as joined to this desire of God for redemption and blessing.

And now in his "Sermon on the Plain" almost singing we hear Jesus speak of blessings and woes, of good fortune and trouble,  of consequences and outcomes.

Unlike Matthew's "Sermon on the Mount" Luke's version is balanced in indicating how God's work of reconciliation and judgement, of redemption and blessing will impact the world that Jesus now inhabits.   Blessings for the poor, hungry, weeping and persecuted are layered against warnings for the rich, full, the laughing and the well regarded.

Jesus sermon feels like a hymn of reversal.  But there is much more to this than a simple flipping of tables.  The reversal will undo temple authority, social stigma, ethnic purity standards and the very definition of righteousness.

Before we presume ourselves to be the poor ones, as did many to whom Jesus preached that day let's leave ourselves open to possibilities other than getting even with the Romans.  Think tax collectors like Levi becoming disciples, elite widows like Joanna who visit his tomb, or centurions of great faith.

Maybe reversal isn't the best way to characterize this change of fortune.  If we are to have part in God's setting things right our part will look more like trust, more like repentance, more like following in faith.