Micah 6

Yahweh Brings a Charge against Israel

¹Hear now what Yahweh says:

“Arise! Plead your case with the mountains,

²Hear, O mountains, the indictment of Yahweh,

for Yahweh has an indictment against his people,

³“O my people, what have I done to you,

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

⁵O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised,

and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,

What Does Yahweh Require?

⁶With what shall I approach Yahweh,

Shall I approach him with burnt offerings,

⁷Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams,

Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,

⁸He has told you, O mortal, what is good,

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

The Destruction of the Wicked

⁹The voice of Yahweh calls to the city

¹⁰Is there any longer a man in the house of the wicked

¹¹Shall I regard as pure the one with scales of wickedness,

¹²Because her rich are full of violence,

¹³And I also have made you sick by striking you down,[#Literally “I have made sick to strike you down”]

¹⁴You yourself will eat but not be satisfied;

and you will put away, but you will not save,

¹⁵You yourself will sow, but you will not reap;

¹⁶For you have observed the regulations of Omri

And you have walked in their counsels,

and your inhabitants an object of scorn.