Micah 6:1-8 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
God Challenges Israel
6 Hear what the Lord says:
Rise, plead your case before the mountains,
and let the hills hear your voice.(A)
2 Hear, you mountains, the case of the Lord,
and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has a case against his people,
and he will contend with Israel.(B)
3 “O my people, what have I done to you?
In what have I wearied you? Answer me!(C)
4 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt
and redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
Aaron, and Miriam.(D)
5 O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised,
what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.”(E)
What God Requires
6 “With what shall I come before the Lord
and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
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?”(F)
8 He has told you, O mortal, what is good,
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice and to love kindness
and to walk humbly with your God?(G)
Cross references
- 6.1 : Ps 50.1; Ezek 6.2, 3
- 6.2 : Deut 32.1; Isa 1.18; Hos 4.1; 12.2
- 6.3 : Ps 50.7; Isa 43.22, 23; Jer 2.5
- 6.4 : Ex 12.51; 15.20; Deut 4.20; 7.8; Ps 77.20
- 6.5 : Num 22.5, 6; 25.1; Josh 4.19; 5.9, 10; Judg 5.11; 1 Sam 12.7; Rev 2.14
- 6.7 : 2 Kings 16.3; 21.6; Jer 7.31
- 6.8 : Deut 10.12; 1 Sam 15.22; Isa 56.1; 57.15; 66.2; Hos 6.6; 12.6
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