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1Hear what the Lord says:[#Ps 50.1; Ezek 6.2, 3]
Rise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear your voice.
2Hear, you mountains, the case of the Lord ,[#Deut 32.1; Isa 1.18; Hos 4.1; 12.2]
and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has a case against his people,
and he will contend with Israel.
3“O my people, what have I done to you?[#Ps 50.7; Isa 43.22, 23; Jer 2.5]
In what have I wearied you? Answer me!
4For I brought you up from the land of Egypt[#Ex 12.51; 15.20; Deut 4.20; 7.8; Ps 77.20]
and redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
Aaron, and Miriam.
5O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised,[#Num 22.5, 6; 25.1; Josh 4.19; 5.9, 10; Judg 5.11; 1 Sam 12.7; Rev 2.14]
what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know the saving acts of the Lord .”
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?
7Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,[#2 Kings 16.3; 21.6; Jer 7.31]
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?”
8He has told you, O mortal, what is good,[#Deut 10.12; 1 Sam 15.22; Isa 56.1; 57.15; 66.2; Hos 6.6; 12.6]
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice and to love kindness
and to walk humbly with your God?
9The voice of the Lord cries to the city
(and he shall save those who fear his name):
Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!
10Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked[#Jer 5.26, 27; Am 3.10; 8.5; #6.10 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain]
and the despicable false measure?
11Can I tolerate wicked scales[#Hos 12.7]
and a bag of dishonest weights?
12Your wealthy are full of violence;[#6.12 Heb Whose]
your inhabitants speak lies
with tongues of deceit in their mouths.
13Therefore I have begun to strike you down,[#Isa 1.7; 6.11; Mic 1.9; #6.13 Gk Syr Vg: Heb have made sick]
making you desolate because of your sins.
14You shall eat but not be satisfied,[#Lev 26.26; Isa 9.20; 30.6]
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.
15You shall sow but not reap;[#Deut 28.38; Jer 12.13; Am 5.11; Zeph 1.13]
you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil;
you shall tread grapes but not drink wine.
16For you have kept the statutes of Omri[#1 Kings 16.25–33; Jer 7.24; 19.8; #6.16 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb the statutes of Omri are kept]
and all the works of the house of Ahab,
and you have followed their counsels.
Therefore I will make you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of hissing,
so you shall bear the scorn of my people.