Micah 6:1-4, 6-8
Psalm 50:5-6, 8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
Matthew 12:38-42
Micah 6:1-4, 6-8
(1) Listen to what the Lord says: Rise, contend in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. (2) Let the mountains listen to the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth. For the judgment of the Lord is with his people, and he will enter into judgment with Israel. (3) My people, what have I done to you, or how have I assailed you? Respond to me. (4) For I led you out of the land of Egypt, and I freed you from the house of servitude, and I sent before your face Moses, and Aaron, and Miriam. (6) What worthy thing might I offer to the Lord, as I bend the knee before God on high? How could I offer holocausts to him, and one year-old calves? (7) Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he-goats? How could I give up my firstborn because of my evil deed, the fruit of my womb because of the sin of my soul? (8) I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.
Psalm 50:5-6, 8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
(5) Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices. (6) And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge. (8) I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight. (9) I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks. (16) But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth? (17) Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you. (21) These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face. (23) The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.
Matthew 12:38-42
(38) Then certain ones from the scribes and the Pharisees responded to him, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” (39) And answering, he said to them: “An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. But a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah. (40) For just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights. (41) The men of Nineveh shall arise in judgment with this generation, and they shall condemn it. For, at the preaching of Jonah, they repented. And behold, there is a greater than Jonah here. (42) The Queen of the South shall arise in judgment with this generation, and she shall condemn it. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, there is a greater than Solomon here.
