6:1 Hear, then, what the LORD says: Arise, present your plea before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice!
6:2 Hear, O mountains, the plea of the LORD, pay attention, O foundations of the earth! For the LORD has a plea against his people, and he enters into trial with Israel.
6:3 O my people, what have I done to you, or how have I wearied you? Answer me!
6:4 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery I released you; And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
6:5 My people, remember what Moab’s King Balak planned, and how Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him . . . from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the just deeds of the LORD.
6:6 With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow before God most high? Shall I come before him with holocausts, with calves a year old?
6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriad streams of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my crime, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
6:8 You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.
6:9 Hark! the LORD cries to the city. (It is wisdom to fear your name!) Hear, O tribe and city council,
6:12 You whose rich men are full of violence, whose inhabitants speak falsehood with deceitful tongues in their heads!
6:10 Am I to bear any longer criminal hoarding and the meager ephah that is accursed?
6:11 Shall I acquit criminal balances, bags of false weights?
6:13 Rather I will begin to strike you with devastation because of your sins.
6:15 You shall sow, yet not reap, tread out the olive, yet pour no oil, and the grapes, yet drink no wine.
6:14 You shall eat, without being satisfied, food that will leave you empty; What you acquire, you cannot save; what you do save, I will deliver up to the sword.
6:16 You have kept the decrees of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have walked in their counsels; Therefore I will deliver you up to ruin, and your citizens to derision; and you shall bear the reproach of the nations. [CHAP.7]