Psalm 50:7-15
New International Version
7 “Listen, my people, and I will speak;
I will testify(A) against you, Israel:
I am God, your God.(B)
8 I bring no charges(C) against you concerning your sacrifices
or concerning your burnt offerings,(D) which are ever before me.
9 I have no need of a bull(E) from your stall
or of goats(F) from your pens,(G)
10 for every animal of the forest(H) is mine,
and the cattle on a thousand hills.(I)
11 I know every bird(J) in the mountains,
and the insects in the fields(K) are mine.
12 If I were hungry I would not tell you,
for the world(L) is mine, and all that is in it.(M)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
Amos 5:18-24
New International Version
The Day of the Lord
18 Woe to you who long
for the day of the Lord!(A)
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?(B)
That day will be darkness,(C) not light.(D)
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
only to meet a bear,(E)
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.(F)
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,(G) not light—
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?(H)
21 “I hate,(I) I despise your religious festivals;(J)
your assemblies(K) are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings(L) and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.(M)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.(N)
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.(O)
24 But let justice(P) roll on like a river,
righteousness(Q) like a never-failing stream!(R)
Matthew 18:12-14
New International Version
12 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
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