Micah 6

Hear what the LORD says: “Rise, present your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.” Hear the LORD’s case, mountains, and you enduring foundations of the earth.
For the LORD has a case against his people, and he will contend with Israel. “My people, what have I done to you?
How have I wearied you?
Answer me. For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery.
I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you. My people, remember what Balak king of Moab planned and what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.” With what shall I come before the LORD and bow before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has told you, man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God? The voice of the LORD calls to the city, and the wise will see your name.
Hear the rod and the one who appointed it! Are there still treasures of wickedness in the wicked man’s house, and a scant grain measure that is accursed? Can I be innocent with wicked scales and a bag of dishonest weights? Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouths. “So I too have made you sick by striking you, laying you waste because of your sins. You will eat but not be satisfied, and emptiness will remain within you.
You will put things aside but not save them, and what you save I will give to the sword. You will sow but not reap.
You will tread olives but not anoint yourself with oil, and tread out new wine but not drink wine. Omri’s statutes are kept, and all the practices of the house of Ahab;
you walk in their counsels.
So I will make you a desolation and her inhabitants an object of hissing, and you will bear the reproach of my people.”

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