Micah 6

Revised Geneva Translation

6 Listen now to what the LORD says: “Arise! Plead before the mountains! And let the hills hear your voice!”

² Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s quarrel, and you mighty foundations of the Earth! For the LORD has a quarrel against His people. And He will dispute with Israel.

³ “O My people! What have I done to you? Or in what have I grieved you? Testify against Me.

⁴ “Surely, I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of servants. And I have sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.”

⁵ O My people! Remember now what Balak, king of Moab, had devised, 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, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before Him with Burnt Offerings, with calves of a year old?

⁷ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

⁸ He has shown you, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of you: surely to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

⁹ The LORD’s voice cries to the city! And the man of wisdom shall see Your Name. “Hear the rod and Who has appointed it!

¹⁰ “Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

¹¹ “Shall I justify the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitful weights?

¹² “For their rich men are full of cruelty. And their inhabitants have spoken lies. And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

¹³ “Therefore, I will also make you sick by striking you, by making you desolate because of your sins.

¹⁴ “You shall eat and not be satisfied. And your casting down shall be in the midst of you. And you shall take hold but shall not deliver. And that which you do deliver, I will give up to the sword.

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