Micah 6:9-16

Common English Bible

⁹ The voice of the Lord calls out to the city;
        wisdom appears when one fears your name.^[a]
        Hear, tribe, and who appointed her!^[b]
10 Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of wickedness,
        while the shorted basket^[c] is denounced?^[d]
11 Can I approve wicked scales and a bag of false weights
¹²     in a city^[e] whose wealthy are full of violence
        and whose inhabitants speak falsehood
            with lying tongues in their mouths?
¹³ So I have made you sick by striking you!
        I have struck you because of your sins.
¹⁴ You devour, but you aren’t satisfied;
        a gnawing emptiness is within you.
    You put something aside,
        but you don’t keep it safe.
        That which you do try to keep safe,
            I will give to the sword.
¹⁵ You sow, but you don’t gather.
    You tread down olives, but you don’t anoint with oil;
        you tread grapes, but don’t drink wine.
¹⁶ Yet you^[f] have kept the policies of Omri,
        all the practices of the house of Ahab;
    you have followed their counsels.
    Therefore, I will make you a sign of destruction,
            your^[g] inhabitants an object of hissing!
You must bear the reproach of my people.