Micah 6:9-16

World English Bible

⁹ Yahweh’s voice calls to the city,
    and wisdom sees your name:
“Listen to the rod,
    and he who appointed it.
¹⁰ Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
    and a short ephah^[a] that is accursed?
¹¹ Shall I be pure with dishonest scales,
    and with a bag of deceitful weights?
¹² Her rich men are full of violence,
    her inhabitants speak lies,
    and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
¹³ Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound.
    I have made you desolate because of your sins.
¹⁴ You shall eat, but not be satisfied.
    Your humiliation will be within you.
    You will store up, but not save;
    and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
¹⁵ You will sow, but won’t reap.
    You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil;
    and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.
¹⁶ For the statutes of Omri are kept,
    and all the works of Ahab’s house.
    You walk in their counsels,
    that I may make you a ruin,
    and her inhabitants a hissing;
    And you will bear the reproach of my people.”