Micah 6 - New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

God Challenges Israel

6 Hear what the Lord says:
Rise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear your voice.(A)
2 Hear, you mountains, the case of the Lord,
and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has a case against his people,
and he will contend with Israel.(B)

3 “O my people, what have I done to you?
In what have I wearied you? Answer me!(C)
4 For 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.(D)
5 O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised,
what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.”(E)

What God Requires

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?
7 Will 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?”(F)
8 He has told you, O mortal, 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?(G)

Cheating and Violence to Be Punished

9 The voice of the Lord cries to the city
(and he shall save those who fear his name[a]):
Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city![b]
10 Can I forget[c] the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked
and the despicable false measure?(H)
11 Can I tolerate wicked scales
and a bag of dishonest weights?(I)
12 Your[d] wealthy are full of violence;
your[e] inhabitants speak lies
with tongues of deceit in their mouths.
13 Therefore I have begun[f] to strike you down,
making you desolate because of your sins.(J)
14 You shall eat but not be satisfied,
and there shall be a gnawing hunger within you;
you shall put away but not save,
and what you save, I will hand over to the sword.(K)
15 You shall sow but not reap;
you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil;
you shall tread grapes but not drink wine.(L)
16 For you have kept the statutes of Omri[g]
and all the works of the house of Ahab,
and you have followed their counsels.
Therefore I will make you a desolation and your[h] inhabitants an object of hissing,
so you shall bear the scorn of my people.(M)

Footnotes

  1. 6.9Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 6.9Cn Compare Gk: Heb tribe, and who has appointed it yet?
  3. 6.10Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  4. 6.12Heb Whose
  5. 6.12Heb whose
  6. 6.13Gk Syr Vg: Heb have made sick
  7. 6.16Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb the statutes of Omri are kept
  8. 6.16Heb its

Cross references

  1. 6.1 : Ps 50.1; Ezek 6.2, 3
  2. 6.2 : Deut 32.1; Isa 1.18; Hos 4.1; 12.2
  3. 6.3 : Ps 50.7; Isa 43.22, 23; Jer 2.5
  4. 6.4 : Ex 12.51; 15.20; Deut 4.20; 7.8; Ps 77.20
  5. 6.5 : Num 22.5, 6; 25.1; Josh 4.19; 5.9, 10; Judg 5.11; 1 Sam 12.7; Rev 2.14
  6. 6.7 : 2 Kings 16.3; 21.6; Jer 7.31
  7. 6.8 : Deut 10.12; 1 Sam 15.22; Isa 56.1; 57.15; 66.2; Hos 6.6; 12.6
  8. 6.10 : Jer 5.26, 27; Am 3.10; 8.5
  9. 6.11 : Hos 12.7
  10. 6.13 : Isa 1.7; 6.11; Mic 1.9
  11. 6.14 : Lev 26.26; Isa 9.20; 30.6
  12. 6.15 : Deut 28.38; Jer 12.13; Am 5.11; Zeph 1.13
  13. 6.16 : 1 Kings 16.25–33; Jer 7.24; 19.8

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