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MICAH 6

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The Indictment of the Lord
6:1
Hear what the Lord says:
Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear your voice.
2
Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord,
and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has an indictment against his people,
and he will contend with Israel.

3
“O my people, what have I done to you?
How have I wearied you? Answer me!
4
For I brought you up from the land of Egypt
and redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
Aaron, and Miriam.
5
O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised,
and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.”
What Does the Lord Require?
6
“With what shall I come before the Lord,
and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”
8
He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?
Destruction of the Wicked
9
The voice of the Lord cries to the city—
and it is sound wisdom to fear your name:
“Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!
10
Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
and the scant measure that is accursed?
11
Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales
and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12
Your rich men are full of violence;
your inhabitants speak lies,
and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13
Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow,
making you desolate because of your sins.
14
You shall eat, but not be satisfied,
and there shall be hunger within you;
you shall put away, but not preserve,
and what you preserve I will give to the sword.
15
You shall sow, but not reap;
you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
16
For you have kept the statutes of Omri,
and all the works of the house of Ahab;
and you have walked in their counsels,
that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing;
so you shall bear the scorn of my people.”



MICAH 7

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Wait for the God of Salvation
7:1
Woe is me! For I have become
as when the summer fruit has been gathered,
as when the grapes have been gleaned:
there is no cluster to eat,
no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
2
The godly has perished from the earth,
and there is no one upright among mankind;
they all lie in wait for blood,
and each hunts the other with a net.
3
Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well;
the prince and the judge ask for a bribe,
and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul;
thus they weave it together.
4
The best of them is like a brier,
the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
now their confusion is at hand.
5
Put no trust in a neighbor;
have no confidence in a friend;
guard the doors of your mouth
from her who lies in your arms;
6
for the son treats the father with contempt,
the daughter rises up against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
7
But as for me, I will look to the Lord;
I will wait for the God of my salvation;
my God will hear me.

8
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy;
when I fall, I shall rise;
when I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be a light to me.
9
I will bear the indignation of the Lord
because I have sinned against him,
until he pleads my cause
and executes judgment for me.
He will bring me out to the light;
I shall look upon his vindication.
10
Then my enemy will see,
and shame will cover her who said to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will look upon her;
now she will be trampled down
like the mire of the streets.

11
A day for the building of your walls!
In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
12
In that day they will come to you,
from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
and from Egypt to the River,
from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
13
But the earth will be desolate
because of its inhabitants,
for the fruit of their deeds.

14
Shepherd your people with your staff,
the flock of your inheritance,
who dwell alone in a forest
in the midst of a garden land;
let them graze in Bashan and Gilead
as in the days of old.
15
As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
I will show them marvelous things.
16
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
they shall lay their hands on their mouths;
their ears shall be deaf;
17
they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
like the crawling things of the earth;
they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,
and they shall be in fear of you.
God’s Steadfast Love and Compassion
18
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
19
He will again have compassion on us;
he will tread our iniquities underfoot.
You will cast all our sins
into the depths of the sea.
20
You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our fathers
from the days of old.



PROVERBS 14

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14:1
The wisest of women builds her house,
but folly with her own hands tears it down.
2
Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord,
but he who is devious in his ways despises him.
3
By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back,
but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
4
Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean,
but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
5
A faithful witness does not lie,
but a false witness breathes out lies.
6
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain,
but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
7
Leave the presence of a fool,
for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
8
The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way,
but the folly of fools is deceiving.
9
Fools mock at the guilt offering,
but the upright enjoy acceptance.
10
The heart knows its own bitterness,
and no stranger shares its joy.
11
The house of the wicked will be destroyed,
but the tent of the upright will flourish.
12
There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.
13
Even in laughter the heart may ache,
and the end of joy may be grief.
14
The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways,
and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.
15
The simple believes everything,
but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
16
One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil,
but a fool is reckless and careless.
17
A man of quick temper acts foolishly,
and a man of evil devices is hated.
18
The simple inherit folly,
but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
19
The evil bow down before the good,
the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
20
The poor is disliked even by his neighbor,
but the rich has many friends.
21
Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner,
but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
22
Do they not go astray who devise evil?
Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness.
23
In all toil there is profit,
but mere talk tends only to poverty.
24
The crown of the wise is their wealth,
but the folly of fools brings folly.
25
A truthful witness saves lives,
but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.
26
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence,
and his children will have a refuge.
27
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,
that one may turn away from the snares of death.
28
In a multitude of people is the glory of a king,
but without people a prince is ruined.
29
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
30
A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh,
but envy makes the bones rot.
31
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker,
but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
32
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing,
but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
33
Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding,
but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.
34
Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people.
35
A servant who deals wisely has the king’s favor,
but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.



REVELATION 13

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The First Beast
  13:1 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads. 2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. 3 One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast. 4 And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”
    
5 And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation, 8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. 9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear:
10
If anyone is to be taken captive,
to captivity he goes;
if anyone is to be slain with the sword,
with the sword must he be slain.
Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints. The Second Beast
11 Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. 13 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, 14 and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. 16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.

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