Micah 6

¹Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.SelectedMicah 6:1CopyShareAsk

²Hear 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.SelectedMicah 6:2CopyShareAsk

³O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.SelectedMicah 6:3CopyShareAsk

⁴For 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.SelectedMicah 6:4CopyShareAsk

⁵O 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.SelectedMicah 6:5CopyShareAsk

⁶Wherewith 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?SelectedMicah 6:6CopyShareAsk

⁷Will 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?SelectedMicah 6:7CopyShareAsk

⁸He 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?SelectedMicah 6:8CopyShareAsk

⁹The 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.SelectedMicah 6:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?SelectedMicah 6:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?SelectedMicah 6:11CopyShareAsk

¹²For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.SelectedMicah 6:12CopyShareAsk

¹³Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.SelectedMicah 6:13CopyShareAsk

¹⁴Thou 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.SelectedMicah 6:14CopyShareAsk

¹⁵Thou 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.SelectedMicah 6:15CopyShareAsk

¹⁶For 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.SelectedMicah 6:16CopyShareAsk