Micah 6:12-16

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² Your^[a] rich men are full of violence;
    your^[b] inhabitants speak lies,
    and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
¹³ Therefore I have begun^[c] to smite you,
    making you desolate because of your sins.
¹⁴ You shall eat, but not be satisfied,
    and there shall be hunger in your inward parts;
you shall put away, but not save,
    and what you save I will give to the sword.
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.
¹⁶ For you have kept the statutes of Omri,^[d]
    and all the works of the house of Ahab;
    and you have walked in their counsels;
that I may make you a desolation, and your^[e] inhabitants a hissing;
    so you shall bear the scorn of the peoples.”^[f]