A reading from
the Book of the Prophet Micah 6:1-4, 6-8
Hear what the Lord says:/ Arise, present your plea before the mountains,/ and let the hills hear your voice!/ Hear, O mountains, the plea of the Lord,/ pay attention, O foundations of the earth!/ For the Lord has a plea against his people,/ and he enters into trial with Israel.
O my people, what have I done to you,/ or how have I wearied you? Answer me!/ For I brought you up from the land of Egypt,/ from the place of slavery I released you;/ and I sent before you Moses,/ Aaron, and Miriam.
With what shall I come before the Lord,/ and bow before God most high?/ Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,/ with calves a year old?/ Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,/ with myriad streams of oil?/ Shall I give my first-born for my crime,/ the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?/ You have been told, O man, what is good,/ and what the Lord requires of you:/ Only to do the right and to love goodness,/ and to walk humbly with your God.
The word of the Lord.
