Micah 6:6-16 ▼

6 With what will I come before YHWH and bow myself before God Most High? Will I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves, sons of a year?

7 Will YHWH be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriad rivers of oil? Will I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8 He has shown to you, O man, what is good. And what does YHWH seek from you, but to do justice and to love kindness, and to be humble to walk with your God?

9 The voice of YHWH calls to the city, and wisdom fears Your name: “Heed the rod, and the One who has appointed it!

10 Are there Yet, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of leanness, which is accursed?

11 Shall I count pure one with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of weights of deceit?

12 How her rich men are full of violence, and her dwellers have spoken deception, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth!

13 So also I will be severe in striking you, to make you desolate over your sins!

14 You will eat, and you will not be satisfied, your emptiness is in your entrails; you will put away, and you will not save, and what you save, I will give to the sword.

15 You will sow, and you will not reap; you will tread the olives, and you will not anoint yourselves with oil, and new wine, and you will not drink the wine.

16 And the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you? walk by their counsels. Therefore I will give you to desolation, and your dwellers to hissing, and you? will bear the scorn of the nations.”