Wednesday of the 13th week of Ordinary Time

14Seek good and not evil, so that you may live. And the Lord God of hosts will be with you, just as you have asked. 15Hate evil and love good, and establish judgment at the gate. Perhaps then the Lord God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

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21I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings. 22For if you offer me holocausts and your gifts, I will not receive them; and I will not look upon the vows of your fatness. 23Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre. 24And judgment will be revealed like water, and justice like a mighty torrent.

7Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.

8I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.

9I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.

10For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.

11I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.

12If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.

13Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?

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16But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?

17Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.

28And when he had arrived across the sea, into the region of the Gerasenes, he was met by two who had demons, who were so exceedingly savage, as they went out from among the tombs, that no one was able to cross by that way. 29And behold, they cried out, saying: “What are we to you, O Jesus, the Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?” 30Now there was, not far from them, a herd of many swine feeding. 31Then the demons petitioned him, saying: “If you cast us from here, send us into the herd of swine.” 32And he said to them, “Go.” And they, going out, went into the swine. And behold, the entire herd suddenly rushed along a steep place into the sea. And they died in the waters. 33Then the shepherds fled, and arriving in the city, they reported on all this, and on those who had had the demons. 34And behold, the entire city went out to meet Jesus. And having seen him, they petitioned him, so that he would cross from their borders.