Micah 6

1. Hear now what the LORD says, “Arise, contend with the mountains and let the hills hear your voice.

2. O mountains, hear the LORD’S controversy; and you, strong foundations of the earth, for the LORD has a controversy with His people, and He will plead His case with Israel.

3. O My people, what have I done to you? And in what way have I made you weary? Testify against Me!

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

5. O My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab planned, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.”

6. With what shall I come before the LORD, to bow myself before God the Most High? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

7. Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, 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 life?

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

9. Hearken! The LORD cries unto the city, and it is wisdom to have regard for Your name. “Hear the rod and Him who has appointed it.

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

11. Shall I count pure those with wicked balances, and those with a bag of deceitful weights?

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

13. Therefore I also have made you sick by striking you, making you desolate because of your sins.

14. You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your hunger shall be in your midst. And you shall conceive, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliver I will give up to the sword.

15. You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and make sweet wine, but shall not drink wine,

16. For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, so that I should make you a desolation and your inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.”