| 1 Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the
mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear, O ye mountains,
Jehovah's controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth; for Jehovah
hath a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel. 3 O
my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee?
testify against me. 4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and
redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses,
Aaron, and Miriam. 5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab
devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him; remember from
Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of Jehovah.
6 Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high
God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?
7 will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten
thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath showed thee, O man,
what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to
love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God? 9 The voice of Jehovah
crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name: hear
ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. 10 Are there yet treasures of
wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is
abominable? 11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of
deceitful weights? 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and
the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in
their mouth. 13 Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound;
I have made thee desolate because of thy sins. 14 Thou shalt eat, but not
be satisfied; and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou
shalt put away, but shalt not save; and that which thou savest will I give up
to the sword. 15 Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the
olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not
drink the wine. 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of
the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a
desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the
reproach of my people.
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