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Chapter 6  
     
1.
 Hear you now what the Lord said in vision; Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
  
2.
 Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, and you strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
  
3.
 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and in which have I wearied thee? testify against me.
  
4.
 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of servants; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
  
5.
 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that you may know the righteousness of the Lord.
  
6.
 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
  
7.
 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or 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?
  
8.
 He has shown thee, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
  
9.
 The Lord's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear you the rod, and who has appointed it.
  
10.
 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
  
11.
 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
  
12.
 For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  
13.
 Therefore also will I make you sick in smiting thee, in making you desolate because of thy sins.
  
14.
 Thou shall eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliverest will I give up to the sword.
  
15.
 Thou shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint you with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.
  
16.
 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants of it an hissing: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people.
  

 
 
 

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