| 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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