Catholic Daily Reading 21st July 2012

"Mic 2:1  Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.
Mic 2:2  And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
Mic 2:3  Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.
Mic 2:4  In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?
Mic 2:5  Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.2
Micah 2:1-5

"Psa 10:1  Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble?
Psa 10:2  Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.
Psa 10:3  For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.
Psa 10:4  The sinner hath provoked the Lord, according to the multitude of his wrath, he will not seek him:
Psa 10:7  His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labour and sorrow.
Psa 10:8  He sitteth in ambush with the rich, in private places, that he may kill the innocent.
Psa 10:14  Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wlt be a helper to the orphan."
Psalm 10:1-2,3-4,7-8,14

"Mat 12:14  And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.
Mat 12:15  But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed him, and he healed them all.
Mat 12:16  And he charged them that they should not make him known.
Mat 12:17  That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the prophet, saying:
Mat 12:18  Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul hath been well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
Mat 12:19  He shall not contend, nor cry out, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
Mat 12:20  The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Mat 12:21  And in his name the Gentiles shall hope. "
Matthew 12:14-21