Micah 6:1-8

Common English Bible

God’s dispute with Israel

6 Hear what the Lord is saying:
Arise, lay out the lawsuit before the mountains;
        let the hills hear your voice!
²Hear, mountains, the lawsuit of the Lord!
        Hear, eternal foundations of the earth!
The Lord has a lawsuit against his people;
        with Israel he will argue.
³“My people, what did I ever do to you?
        How have I wearied you? Answer me!
⁴I brought you up out of the land of Egypt;
        I redeemed you from the house of slavery.
        I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.
⁵My people, remember what Moab’s King Balak had planned,
        and how Balaam, Beor’s son, answered him!
        Remember everything^[a] from Shittim to Gilgal,
        that you might learn to recognize the righteous acts of the Lord!”

What does the Lord require?

⁶With what should I approach the Lord
        and bow down before God on high?
Should I come before him with entirely burned offerings,
        with year-old calves?
⁷Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
        with many torrents of oil?
Should I give my oldest child for my crime;
        the fruit of my body for the sin of my spirit?
⁸He has told you, human one, what is good and
        what the Lord requires from you:
            to do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with your God.

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Footnotes

Micah 6:5 Heb lacks everything.

Psalm 14

Common English Bible

Psalm 14

For the music leader. Of David.

14 Fools say in their hearts, There is no God.
They are corrupt and do evil things;
not one of them does anything good.

²The Lord looks down from heaven on humans
    to see if anyone is wise,
    to see if anyone seeks God,
³        but all of them have turned bad.
        Everyone is corrupt.
        No one does good—
        not even one person!

⁴Are they dumb, all these evildoers,
    devouring my people
    like they are eating bread
        but never calling on the Lord?

⁵Count on it:^[a] they will be in utter panic
    because God is with the righteous generation.
⁶You evildoers may humiliate
    the plans of those who suffer,
        but the Lord is their refuge.

⁷Let Israel’s salvation come out of Zion!
        When the Lord changes
        his people’s circumstances for the better,
        Jacob will rejoice;
        Israel will celebrate!

Footnotes

Psalm 14:5 Or There they will be; cf 53:5

Matthew 12:38-42

Common English Bible

Request for a sign

³⁸At that time some of the legal experts and the Pharisees requested of Jesus, “Teacher, we would like to see a sign from you.”

³⁹But he replied, “An evil and unfaithful generation searches for a sign, but it won’t receive any sign except Jonah’s sign. ⁴⁰Just as Jonah was in the whale’s belly for three days and three nights,^[a] so the Human One^[b] will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. ⁴¹The citizens of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it as guilty, because they changed their hearts and lives in response to Jonah’s preaching. And look, someone greater than Jonah is here. ⁴²The queen of the South will be raised up by God at the judgment with this generation and condemn it because she came from a distant land to hear Solomon’s wisdom. And look, someone greater than Solomon is here.