# Micah 6 [[Micah-05|← Micah 05]] | [[Micah]] | [[Micah-07|Micah 07 →]] *** ###### v1 Listen now to what Yahweh says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say. ###### v2 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. ###### v3 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me! ###### v4 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. ###### v5 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." ###### v6 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? ###### v7 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? ###### v8 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? ###### v9 Yahweh's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it. ###### v10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? ###### v11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? ###### v12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. ###### v13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. ###### v14 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. ###### v15 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. ###### v16 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." *** [[Micah-05|← Micah 05]] | [[Micah]] | [[Micah-07|Micah 07 →]]