You have been told, O mortal, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 NABRE Micah is recounting a sort of trial between the Lord and the Hebrew people with the…
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Jonah 3:4 – January 24, 2021
Jonah began his journey through the city, and when he had gone only a single day’s walk announcing, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown,” Jonah 3:4 NABRE God wants to restore His people and uses Jonah to deliver a message. We see in the quoted verse the key…
View More Jonah 3:4 – January 24, 2021Psalms 33:4-5 – February 5, 2020
For the LORD’s word is upright; all his works are trustworthy. He loves justice and right. The earth is full of the mercy of the LORD. Psalms 33:4-5 NABRE Psalm thirty-three is a psalm of praise to God. Praising God as Creator and praising all of creation available to us.…
View More Psalms 33:4-5 – February 5, 2020Amos 5:24 – January 20, 2020
Rather let justice surge like waters, and righteousness like an unfailing stream. Amos 5:24 NABRE Amos was a prophet called to prophesy in the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The Lord choose to make him a spokesperson, to stir up the people’s consciences. His preaching has to do mainly with two…
View More Amos 5:24 – January 20, 2020Isaiah 1:16-17 – January 5, 2020
Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; cease doing evil; learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan’s plea, defend the widow. Isaiah 1:16-17 NABRE Syria and Ephraim (Israel) aligned against Assyria and they tried to convince Judah to join.…
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