Mic 6
1
Hear you now what YHWH says: Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the
hills hear your voice.
2
Hear, O you mountains, YHWH`s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth;
for YHWH has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
3
O my people, what have I done to you? and wherein have I wearied you? testify against
me.
4
For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of
bondage; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son
of Beor answered him; [remember] from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous
acts of YHWH.
6
Wherewith shall I come before YHWH, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come
before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?
7
will YHWH be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of
oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the
sin of my soul?
8
He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does YHWH require of you, but to
do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
9
The voice of YHWH cries to the city, and [the man of] wisdom will see your name: hear
you the rod, and who has appointed it.
10
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure
that is abominable?
11
Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and its inhabitants have spoken
lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13
Therefore I also have smitten you with a grievous wound; I have made you desolate
because of your sins.
14
You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your humiliation shall be in the midst of
you: and you shall put away, but shall not save; and that which you save will I give
up to the sword.
15
You shall sow, but shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but shall not anoint
you with oil; and the vintage, but shall not drink the wine.
16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you
walk in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and its inhabitants
a hissing: and you shall bear the reproach of my people.