Mic 6 | LSB | STEP | Listen now to what Yahweh is saying, “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills listen to your voice.

Micah 6

Yahweh’s Case Against His People

1 ^{▼▼ Or hear}Listen now to what Yahweh is saying,

“Arise, plead your case ^{▼▼Lit with}before the mountains,
And let the hills ^{▼▼Or hear}listen to your voice.
2 “ ^{▼▼Or hear}Listen, you mountains, to the case of Yahweh,
And you enduring foundations of the earth,
Because Yahweh has a case against His people;
Even with Israel He will reprove.
3 “My people, what have I done to you,
And how have I wearied you? Answer Me.
4 “Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt
And ransomed you from the house of slavery,
And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 “My people, remember now
What Balak king of Moab counseled
And what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
And from Shittim to Gilgal,
So ^{▼▼Lit to know}that you might know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

What Yahweh Requires

6 With what shall I come before Yahweh
And bow myself before the God on high?
Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,
With yearling calves?
7 Is Yahweh pleased with thousands of rams,
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 told you, O man, what is good;
And what does Yahweh require of you
But to do justice, to love lovingkindness,
And to walk ^{▼▼Or circumspectly}humbly with your God?
9 The voice of Yahweh will call to the city—
And it is sound wisdom to fear Your name:
“Hear, O tribe. Who even has appointed ^{▼▼Lit it}its time?
10 “Is there yet a man in the wicked house,
Along with treasures of wickedness,
And a ^{▼▼Lit shrunken ephah}short measure which is cursed?
11 “Can I purify wicked scales
And a bag of deceptive weights?
12 “For the rich men of ^{▼▼Lit her}the city are full of violence,
And her inhabitants speak lies,
And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13 “So also I will make you sick, striking you down,
Desolating you because of your sins.
14 “You will eat, but you will not be satisfied,
And your ^{▼▼Or possibly garbage, excreta}vileness will be in your midst.
And you will try to remove something for safekeeping,
But you will not cause anything to escape,
And that which you do have escape, I will give to the sword.
15 “You will sow but you will not reap.
You will tread the olive but will not anoint yourself with oil;
And the grapes, but you will not drink wine.
16 “The statutes of Omri
And all the works of the house of Ahab are kept;
And in their counsels you walk.
Therefore I will give you up as an object of horror
And ^{▼▼Lit her}your inhabitants as an object of hissing,
And you will bear the reproach of My people.”