| Chapter 6
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| 1 | Hear ye now
what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the
hills hear thy voice. |
| 2 |
Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the
earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with
Israel. |
| 3 | O my people,
what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against
me. |
| 4 | For I brought thee
up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants;
and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. |
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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 ye 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? |
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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 hath shewed 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? |
| 9 |
The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy
name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. |
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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 thereof are full of
violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is
deceitful in their mouth. |
| 13 |
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee
desolate because of thy sins. |
| 14
| Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in
the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that
which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword. |
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15 | Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou
shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet
wine, but shalt not drink wine. |
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16 | For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the
house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a
desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the
reproach of my people. |
