Micah 6

6 Listen now to what Yahweh says:

“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,

    and let the hills hear what you have to say.

2 Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s indictment,

    and you enduring foundations of the earth;

    for Yahweh has a case against his people,

    and he will contend with Israel.

3 My people, what have I done to you?

    How have I burdened you?

    Answer me!

4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,

    and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.

    I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

5 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised,

    and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal,

    that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

6 How shall I come before Yahweh,

    and bow myself before the exalted God?

Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,

    with calves a year old?

7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams?

    With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?

Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?

    The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8 He has shown you, O man, what is good.

    What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly,

    to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

9 Yahweh’s voice calls to the city,

    and wisdom sees your name:

“Listen to the rod,

    and he who appointed it.

10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,

    and a short ephah that is accursed?

11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales,

    and with a bag of deceitful weights?

12 Her rich men are full of violence,

    her inhabitants speak lies,

    and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound.

    I have made you desolate because of your sins.

14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied.

    Your humiliation will be within you.

    You will store up, but not save;

    and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

15 You will sow, but won’t reap.

    You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil;

    and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

16 For the statutes of Omri are kept,

    and all the works of Ahab’s house.

    You walk in their counsels,

    that I may make you a ruin,

    and her inhabitants a hissing;

    And you will bear the reproach of my people.”