1 Hear, I pray you, that which Jehovah is saying: 'Rise — strive thou with the mountains, And cause thou the hills to hear thy voice.' 2 Hear, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones — foundations of earth! For a strife [is] to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason. 3 O My people, what have I done to thee? And what — have I wearied thee? Testify against Me. 4 For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, And from the house of servants I have ransomed thee, And I send before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 5 O My people, remember, I pray you, What counsel did Balak king of Moab, What answer him did Balaam son of Beor, (From Shittim unto Gilgal,) In order to know the righteous acts of Jehovah.' 6 With what do I come before Jehovah? Do I bow to God Most High? Do I come before Him with burnt-offerings? With calves — sons of a year? 7 Is Jehovah pleased with thousands of rams? With myriads of streams of oil? Do I give my first-born [for] my transgression? The fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul? 8 He hath declared to thee, O man, what [is] good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except — to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God? 9 A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it. 10 Are there yet [in] the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah? 11 Do I reckon [it] pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones? 12 Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth. 13 And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins. 14 Thou — thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit [is] in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give. 15 Thou — thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou — thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine — and thou drinkest not wine. 16 And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!
Micah · Young's Literal Translation
Micah 6 Young's Literal Translation
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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)