Micah 6

The Indictment of the Lord

6Hear what the LORD says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.H8085H3068H559H6965H7378H2022H1389H8085H69632Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel.H8085H2022H3068H7379H386H4146H776H3068H7379H5971H3198H34783"O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!H5971H6213H3811H60304For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.H5927H776H4714H6299H1004H5650H7971H6440H4872H175H48135O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the LORD."H5971H2142H1111H4428H4124H3289H1109H1121H1160H6030H7851H1537H3045H6666H3068

What Does the Lord Require?

6"With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?H6923H3068H3721H4791H430H6923H5930H5695H8141H11217Will 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 soul?"H3068H7521H505H352H7233H5158H8081H5414H1060H6588H6529H990H2403H53158He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?H5046H120H2896H3068H1875H6213H4941H160H2617H3212H6800H430

Destruction of the Wicked

9The voice of the LORD cries to the city— and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: "Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!H3068H6963H7121H5892H8454H7200H8034H8085H4294H325910Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?H786H214H7562H376H1004H7563H7332H374H219411Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?H2135H7562H3976H3599H4820H6812Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.H6223H4390H2555H3427H1696H8267H3956H7423H631013Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.H2470H5221H8074H240314You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword.H398H7646H3445H7130H5253H6403H6403H5414H271915You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.H2232H7114H1869H2132H5480H8081H8492H8354H319616For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people."H2708H6018H8104H4639H1004H256H3212H4156H5414H8047H3427H8322H5375H2781H5971