11 Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales,(A)
    with a bag of false weights?(B)
12 Your rich people are violent;(C)
    your inhabitants are liars(D)
    and their tongues speak deceitfully.(E)
13 Therefore, I have begun to destroy(F) you,
    to ruin[a] you because of your sins.
14 You will eat but not be satisfied;(G)
    your stomach will still be empty.[b]
You will store up but save nothing,(H)
    because what you save[c] I will give to the sword.
15 You will plant but not harvest;(I)
    you will press olives but not use the oil,
    you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:13 Or Therefore, I will make you ill and destroy you; / I will ruin
  2. Micah 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  3. Micah 6:14 Or You will press toward birth but not give birth, / and what you bring to birth

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