Micah · Bible in Basic English
Micah 6 Bible in Basic English
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1 Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.
1 OID ahora lo que dice Jehová: Levántate, pleitea con los montes, y oigan los collados tu voz.
2 Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.
2 Oid, montes, y fuertes fundamentos de la tierra, el pleito de Jehová: porque tiene Jehová pleito con su pueblo, y altercará con Israel.
3 O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.
3 Pueblo mío, ¿qué te he hecho, ó en qué te he molestado? Responde contra mí.
4 For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
4 Porque yo te hice subir de la tierra de Egipto, y de la casa de siervos te redimí; y envié delante de ti á Moisés, y á Aarón, y á María.
5 O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.
5 Pueblo mío, acuérdate ahora qué aconsejó Balac rey de Moab, y qué le respondió Balaam, hijo de Beor, desde Sittim hasta Gilgal, para que conozcas las justicias de Jehová.
6 With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?
6 ¿Con qué prevendré á Jehová, y adoraré al alto Dios? ¿vendré ante él con holocaustos, con becerros de un año?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
7 ¿Agradaráse Jehová de millares de carneros, ó de diez mil arroyos de aceite? ¿daré mi primogénito por mi rebelión, el fruto de mi vientre por el pecado de mi alma?
8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
8 Oh hombre, él te ha declarado qué sea lo bueno, y qué pida de ti Jehová: solamente hacer juicio, y amar misericordia, y humillarte para andar con tu Dios.
9 The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.
9 La voz de Jehová clama á la ciudad, y el sabio mirará á tu nombre. Oid la vara, y á quien la establece.
10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?
10 ¿Hay aún en casa del impío tesoros de impiedad, y medida escasa que es detestable?
11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
11 ¿Seré limpio con peso falso, y con bolsa de engañosas pesas?
12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
12 Con lo cual sus ricos se hinchieron de rapiña, y sus moradores hablaron mentira, y su lengua engañosa en su boca.
13 So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.
13 Por eso yo también te enflaqueceré hiriéndote, asolándote por tus pecados.
14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.
14 Tú comerás, y no te hartarás; y tu abatimiento será en medio de ti: tú cogerás, mas no salvarás; y lo que salvares, lo entregaré yo á la espada.
15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.
15 Tú sembrarás, mas no segarás: pisarás aceitunas, mas no te ungirás con el aceite; y mosto, mas no beberás el vino.
16 For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.
16 Porque los mandamientos de Omri se han guardado, y toda obra de la casa de Achâb; y en los consejos de ellos anduvisteis, para que yo te diese en asolamiento, y tus moradores para ser silbados. Llevaréis por tanto el oprobio de mi pueblo.
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 22:29; Deuteronomy 32:1; Micah 1:2; Ezekiel 36:1; Psalm 50:4
- 2 Hosea 4:1; Hosea 12:2; Isaiah 1:18; Jeremiah 25:31; 2 Samuel 22:16
- 3 Jeremiah 2:5; Isaiah 43:22–23; Psalm 81:13; Jeremiah 2:31; Psalm 50:7
- 4 Deuteronomy 7:8; Exodus 12:51; Psalm 136:10–11; Exodus 15:20–21; Jeremiah 32:21
- 5 Joshua 5:9–10; Numbers 25:1; Judges 5:11; 2 Peter 2:15; Deuteronomy 16:3
- 6 Psalm 51:16–17; Romans 10:2–3; Psalm 40:6–8; Acts 2:37; Matthew 19:16
- 7 2 Kings 16:3; Psalm 51:16; 1 Samuel 15:22; Hosea 6:6; Psalm 50:9
- 8 Deuteronomy 10:12–13; Proverbs 21:3; Colossians 3:12; Jeremiah 22:3; Hosea 6:6
- 9 Revelation 3:19; Hosea 14:9; Zephaniah 3:2; Isaiah 30:27; Isaiah 9:13
- 10 Amos 3:10; Jeremiah 5:26–27; Proverbs 20:10; Amos 8:5–6; Proverbs 21:6
- 11 Hosea 12:7; Leviticus 19:36; Proverbs 16:11
- 12 Jeremiah 9:8; Hosea 7:13; Isaiah 1:23; Jeremiah 9:2–6; Isaiah 5:7
- 13 Psalm 107:17–18; Deuteronomy 28:21–22; Leviticus 26:16; Acts 12:23; Hosea 13:16
- 14 Hosea 4:10; Isaiah 65:13; Leviticus 26:26; Isaiah 9:20; Ezekiel 5:12
- 15 Zephaniah 1:13; Amos 5:11; Jeremiah 12:13; Isaiah 62:8–9; Deuteronomy 28:38–40
- 16 Jeremiah 51:51; Isaiah 25:8; Jeremiah 7:24; Psalm 44:13; 1 Kings 16:25–33
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)