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Cheating and Violence to Be Punished

The voice of the Lord cries to the city
    (and he shall save those who fear his name[a]):
Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city![b]
10     Can I forget[c] the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked
    and the despicable false measure?(A)
11 Can I tolerate wicked scales
    and a bag of dishonest weights?(B)
12 Your[d] wealthy are full of violence;
    your[e] inhabitants speak lies
    with tongues of deceit in their mouths.
13 Therefore I have begun[f] to strike you down,
    making you desolate because of your sins.(C)
14 You shall eat but not be satisfied,
    and there shall be a gnawing hunger within you;
you shall put away but not save,
    and what you save, I will hand over to the sword.(D)
15 You shall sow but not reap;
    you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil;
    you shall tread grapes but not drink wine.(E)
16 For you have kept the statutes of Omri[g]
    and all the works of the house of Ahab,
    and you have followed their counsels.
Therefore I will make you a desolation and your[h] inhabitants an object of hissing,
    so you shall bear the scorn of my people.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.9 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 6.9 Cn Compare Gk: Heb tribe, and who has appointed it yet?
  3. 6.10 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  4. 6.12 Heb Whose
  5. 6.12 Heb whose
  6. 6.13 Gk Syr Vg: Heb have made sick
  7. 6.16 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb the statutes of Omri are kept
  8. 6.16 Heb its

Punishment is near

The voice of the Lord calls out to the city;
        wisdom appears when one fears your name.[a]
        Hear, tribe, and who appointed her![b]
10 Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of wickedness,
        while the shorted basket[c] is denounced?[d]
11 Can I approve wicked scales and a bag of false weights
12     in a city[e] whose wealthy are full of violence
        and whose inhabitants speak falsehood
            with lying tongues in their mouths?
13 So I have made you sick by striking you!
        I have struck you because of your sins.
14 You devour, but you aren’t satisfied;
        a gnawing emptiness is within you.
    You put something aside,
        but you don’t keep it safe.
        That which you do try to keep safe,
            I will give to the sword.
15 You sow, but you don’t gather.
    You tread down olives, but you don’t anoint with oil;
        you tread grapes, but don’t drink wine.
16 Yet you[f] have kept the policies of Omri,
        all the practices of the house of Ahab;
    you have followed their counsels.
    Therefore, I will make you a sign of destruction,
            your[g] inhabitants an object of hissing!
You must bear the reproach of my people.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:9 Heb uncertain
  2. Micah 6:9 Heb uncertain
  3. Micah 6:10 Or ephah, approximately twenty quarts of grain
  4. Micah 6:10 Heb uncertain
  5. Micah 6:12 Heb lacks in a city.
  6. Micah 6:16 Or he
  7. Micah 6:16 Or her