1 Hearken ye nowe what the Lord sayth, Arise thou, and contende before the mountaines, and let the hilles heare thy voyce. 2 Heare ye, O mountaynes, the Lordes quarel, and ye mightie foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a quarell against his people, and he will pleade with Israel. 3 O my people, what haue I done vnto thee? or wherin haue I grieued thee? testifie against me. 4 Surely I brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of seruants, and I haue sent before thee, Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 5 O my people, remember nowe what Balak King of Moab had deuised, and what Balaam the sonne of Beor answered him, from Shittim vnto Gilgal, that ye may knowe the righteousnes of the Lord. 6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bowe my selfe before the hie God? Shall I come before him with burnt offrings, and with calues of a yeere olde? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand riuers of oyle? shall I giue my first borne for my transgression, euen the fruite of my bodie, for the sinne of my soule? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: surely to doe iustly, and to loue mercie, and to humble thy selfe, to walke with thy God. 9 The Lordes voyce cryeth vnto the citie, and the man of wisedome shall see thy name: Heare the rodde, and who hath appoynted it. 10 Are yet the treasures of wickednes in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure, that is abominable? 11 Shall I iustifie the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitfull weightes? 12 For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, and the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth. 13 Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, and in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes. 14 Thou shalt eate and not be satisfied, and thy casting downe shall be in the mids of thee, and thou shalt take holde, but shalt not deliuer: and that which thou deliuerest, will I giue vp to the sworde. 15 Thou shalt sowe, but not reape: thou shalt treade the oliues, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oyle, and make sweete wine, but shalt not drinke wine. 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the maner of the house of Ahab, and ye walke in their counsels, that I should make thee waste, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall beare the reproche of my people.
Micah 6 Geneva Bible (1599)
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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
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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).
Hath He showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" In the words of this prophet, these two things are distinguished and set forth with sufficient explicitness, that God does not require these sacrifices for their own sakes, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
See, for example, how He Himself, the insulted one, discourses with us, both in the Old Testament, and in the New; in the one saying, "O my people, what have I done unto thee?" in the other, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me." And Paul too bids, "In meekness instruct those that oppose themselves." And Christ again, when His disciples …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… there indeed He saith, "What ought I to have done to my vineyard, that I did not;" and elsewhere again, "What transgression have your fathers found in me?" And again, "O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I grieved thee?" showing their thankless disposition, and that when in the enjoyment of all things, they requited …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)