Micah Chapter 6 Back Next{6:1} Listen now to what Yahweh says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the
hills hear what you have to say.
{6:2} Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the
earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with
Israel.
{6:3} My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!
{6:4} For I brought you up out of the land of
Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses,
Aaron, and
Miriam.
{6:5} My people, remember now what
Balak king of Moab devised, and what
Balaam the son of
Beor answered him from Shittim to
Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh."
{6:6} How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with
burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
{6:7} Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my
firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
{6:8} He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
{6:9} Yahweh's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
{6:10} Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short
ephah that is
accursed?
{6:11} Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
{6:12} Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
{6:13} Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
{6:14} You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
{6:15} You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't
anoint yourself with oil; and crush
grapes, but won't
drink the wine.
{6:16} For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of
Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a
hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."
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