1 Listen now to what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say. 2 Hear, you mountains, the LORD’s indictment, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a case against his people, and he will contend with Israel. 3 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me! 4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 5 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.” 6 How shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? 9 The LORD’s voice calls to the city— and wisdom fears your name— “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it. 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? 11 Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights? 12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. 13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. 14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your hunger will be within you. You will store up, but not save, and that which you save I will give up to the sword. 15 You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine. 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and your inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of my people.”
Micah · World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
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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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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)