September 13, 2024 PORTALS OF PRAYER READINGS
Micah 6:1-8
The Indictment of the Lord
6 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[a] 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,[b]
and
to walk humbly with your God?
Footnotes
Micah 7:7-15, 18-20
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[a] will come
to you,
from
Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
and from Egypt to the River,[b]
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;[c]
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[d] marvelous
things.
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[e] 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.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:12 Hebrew he
- Micah 7:12 That is,
the Euphrates
- Micah 7:14 Hebrew of
Carmel
- Micah 7:15 Hebrew him
- Micah 7:19 Hebrew their
Psalm 121
My Help Comes from the Lord
A Song of Ascents.
121 I
lift up my eyes to the hills.
From
where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
who
made heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot be
moved;
he
who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
will
neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your keeper;
the
Lord is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor
the moon by night.
7 The Lord will keep you from all evil;
he
will keep your life.
8 The Lord will keep
your
going out and your coming in
from
this time forth and forevermore.
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