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Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: Micah 1-7.
Today we come upon yet another of God's prophets who foretell of a coming judgment for Israel and Judah.
The Prophet Micah foretells of God's use of Assyria and Babylon to bring about this destruction and exile.
Micah also foretells of a future Shepherd-King (Messiah) who will be born in Bethlehem.
In the sixth chapter, the hearers of this prophecy are snipping back in arrogance and asking what God requires of them to avert this pending judgment:
“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?"
(Micah 6:6-8)
Certainly these men don't understand the true penitent heart.
