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Micah 6:9

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord cries aloud to the city (It is prudent to fear your name!): Hear, O tribe and city assembly,

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In David’s time there was a famine for three years, year after year. David sought the presence of the Lord, who said: There is bloodguilt on Saul and his family because he put the Gibeonites to death.

I will say to God: Do not put me in the wrong! Let me know why you oppose me.

For he will carry out what is appointed for me, and many such things he has in store.

Happy the one whom God reproves! The Almighty’s discipline do not reject.

Whoever is wise will take note of these things, and ponder the merciful deeds of the Lord.

We ponder, O God, your mercy within your temple

Let them be ashamed and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace.

The nations fall into the pit they dig; in the snare they hide, their own foot is caught.

The astute see an evil and hide, while the naive continue on and pay the penalty.

Lord, your hand is raised high, but they do not perceive it; Let them be put to shame when they see your zeal for your people: let the fire prepared for your enemies consume them.

For the fortified city shall be desolate, an abandoned pasture, a forsaken wilderness; There calves shall graze, there they shall lie down, and consume its branches.

See, the name of the Lord is coming from afar, burning with anger, heavy with threat, His lips filled with fury, tongue like a consuming fire,

A voice roaring from the city, a voice from the temple; The voice of the Lord rendering recompense to his enemies!

So the Lord cuts off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.

“Micah of Moresheth used to prophesy in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, Jerusalem, a heap of ruins, and the temple mount, a forest ridge.

I will treat this house like Shiloh, and make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.

How can it find rest when the Lord has commanded it? Against Ashkelon and the seacoast, there he has appointed it.

My eye will not spare, nor will I take pity; I will hold your conduct against you since your abominations remain within you, then you shall know that it is I, the Lord, who strikes.

Ephraim! What more have I to do with idols? I have humbled him, but I will take note of him. I am like a verdant cypress tree. From me fruit will be found for you!

I will send fire upon Judah, and it will devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.

Woe to those who are complacent in Zion, secure on the mount of Samaria, Leaders of the first among nations, to whom the people of Israel turn.

Therefore, because of you, Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem reduced to rubble, And the mount of the temple to a forest ridge.

Am I to bear criminal hoarding and the accursed short ephah?

You have been told, O mortal, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.

It listens to no voice, accepts no correction; In the Lord it has not trusted, nor drawn near to its God.

Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.




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