NHEBJE - Micah - 6

6:1  Listen now to what Jehovah says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

6:2  Hear, you mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Jehovah 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 Jehovah."

6:6  How shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

6:7  Will Jehovah 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 Jehovah require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

6:9  Jehovah'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."