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          DASV: Micah 6

1 Listen to what the LORD says:
     "Get up, plead your case before the mountains,
           and let the hills hear your voice.
2 Hear, O mountains, the LORD's indictment,
          and you enduring foundations of the earth.
     For the LORD has a controversy with his people,
          and he will bring a charge against Israel.

3 O my people, what have I done to you?
     How have I wearied you?
           Answer me.
4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,
     redeemed you out of the house of bondage;
           I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.
5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab plotted,
          and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him.
      Remember what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,
          that you may know the righteous 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 year-old calves?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
          or with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
      Shall I give him my firstborn for my transgression,
          the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has showed you, O man, what is good.
     What does the LORD require of you?
           To do justice,
           to love faithfulness,
                and to walk humbly with your God.

9 The voice of the LORD cries to the city.
      It is wisdom to fear your name:
           "Listen, to the rod and the one who has appointed it.
10 Can I overlook the treasures of wickedness
           in the house of the wicked,
      and the dishonest weights used in trading is accursed?
11 Can I acquit the person with rigged scales,
      and with a bag of dishonest weights?
12 For the rich of your city are full of violence,
     and its inhabitants tell lies,
      and their tongues speak deceit from their mouths.
13 Therefore I will strike you with a serious wound;
     I will make you desolate because of your sins.
14 You will eat, but not be satisfied;
          hunger will be in your midst.
      What you store away, will not be saved;
     what you do manage to save,
           I will give over to the sword.
15 You will sow,
     but not reap;
      you will tread the olives,
     but not anoint yourself with olive oil;
      you will tread grapes,
     but not drink the wine.
16 For you keep the statutes of King Omri,
      and follow all the practices of the house of Ahab,
           and you walk according to their principles.
      Therefore I will make you an utter ruin,
           and your inhabitants an object of mockery,
           and the nations will ridicule you."
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