The Lord's controversy with the people
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Micah 6:1 |
Hear ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. |
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Micah 6:2 |
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. |
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Micah 6:3 |
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. |
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Micah 6:4 |
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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Micah 6:5 |
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. |
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Micah 6:6 |
¶ 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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Micah 6:7 |
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? |
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Micah 6:8 |
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? |
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Micah 6:9 |
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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Micah 6:10 |
¶ Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? |
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Micah 6:11 |
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? |
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Micah 6:12 |
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. |
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Micah 6:13 |
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins. |
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Micah 6:14 |
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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Micah 6:15 |
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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Micah 6:16 |
¶ 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. |
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