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Micah 6:1-8\nHear what the Lord is saying:\nArise, lay out the lawsuit before the mountains;\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0let the hills hear your voice!\nHear, mountains, the lawsuit of the Lord!\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Hear, eternal foundations of the earth!\nThe Lord has a lawsuit against his people;\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0with Israel he will argue.\n\u201cMy people, what did I ever do to you?\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0How have I wearied you? Answer me!\nI brought you up out of the land of Egypt;\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0I redeemed you from the house of slavery.\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.\nMy people, remember what Moab\u2019s King Balak had planned,\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0and how Balaam, Beor\u2019s son, answered him!\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Remember everything[a] from Shittim to Gilgal,\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0that you might learn to recognize the righteous acts of the Lord!\u201d\nWith what should I approach the Lord\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0and bow down before God on high?\nShould I come before him with entirely burned offerings,\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0with year-old calves?\nWill the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0with many torrents of oil?\nShould I give my oldest child for my crime;\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0the fruit of my body for the sin of my spirit?\nHe has told you, human one, what is good and\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0what the Lord requires from you:\n\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0to do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with your God.\nThe post What does the Lord require? \u2013 Micah 6:1-8 appeared first on Queer Theology.