Micah 6

1 Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

2 Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:

3 ‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!

4 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.

5 My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”

6 With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

7 Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

9 The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.

10 Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

11 Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

12 For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

13 Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

14 You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.

15 You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

16 You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

1 ¶ Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.

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 walk humbly with thy God?

9 ¶ The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and [the man of] wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?

11 Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.

13 Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee, in making [thee] desolate because of thy sins.

14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

1 Hear therefore what the LORD saith, Arise, and rebuke the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

2 Hear, ye mountains, how the LORD will punish, and the strong foundations of the earth. For the LORD will rebuke his people, and will punish Israel.

3 What have I done unto thee, my people, and wherewith have I offended thee? Tell me.

4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, and sent before thee Moses, and Aaron, and Miriam.

5 Now remember, my people, what Balak king of Moab purposed to do, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from Shittim even unto Gilgal: whereupon ye shall know how the LORD hath done you all good.

6 Wherewith shall I make atonement unto the LORD? With bowing down before the high God? Shall I make atonement for him with burnt offerings and calves of the year?

7 Thinkest thou that the LORD hath pleasure in many thousands of rams, or in oil, though it were innumerable rivers full? Or shall I give my first son for my transgression, or the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8 It is told thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requireth of thee, to keep the word of God, and to love, and to be humble before thy God.

9 The voice of the LORD shall call upon the city: but he that feareth thy name shall prosper. Hear, ye tribes, what is preached.

10 There remaineth yet unrighteousness in the house of the wicked, and the lowly and hostile ephah.

11 Or shall I approve the unjust scales, and the false weight in the bag?

12 By whom their rich do much wrong? And their inhabitants deal in lies, and have false tongues in their throats.

13 Therefore will I also begin to afflict thee, and to make thee desolate for thy sin.

14 Thou shalt not have enough to eat, neither shalt thou faint. And that which thou hast received shall not pass away: and that which passeth away will I deliver to the sword.

15 Thou shalt sow, and not reap: thou shalt press oil, and not anoint thyself with it; and thou shalt press wine, and not drink wine.

16 For they have kept the way of Amri, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and have followed their counsel. Therefore will I make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof, to be whistled at: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.