Micah 6:8
May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 5:22And Henoch walked with God: and lived after he begot Mathusala, three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
Leviticus 26:41Therefore I also will walk them, and bring them into their enemies' land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed: then shall they pray for their sins.
Deuteronomy 27:10Thou shalt hear his voice, and do the commandments and justices which I command thee.
1 Samuel 12:23And far from me be this sin against the Lord, that I should cease to pray for you, and I will teach you the good and right way.
2 Chronicles 30:11Nevertheless some men of Aser, and of Manasses, and of Zabulon, yielding to the counsel, came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:12And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.
Matthew Henry on Micah 6:7-9
Anxiety Respecting the Divine Favour. ( b. c. 710.) 6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord , and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or 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 hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to… Read the whole commentary →