61Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains,and let the hills hear what you have to say.+2Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy,and you enduring foundations of the earth;for Yahweh has a controversy with his people,and he will contend with Israel.+3My people, what have I done to you?How have I burdened you?Answer me!+4For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,and redeemed you out of the house of bondage.I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.+5My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised,and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal,that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”+6How shall I come before Yahweh,and bow myself before the exalted God?Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,with calves a year old?+7Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams?With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?+8He has shown you, O man, what is good.What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly,to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?+
The Punishment of Israel
9Yahweh’s voice calls to the city,and wisdom sees your name:“Listen to the rod,and he who appointed it.+10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,and a short ephah that is accursed?+11Shall I be pure with dishonest scales,and with a bag of deceitful weights?+12Her rich men are full of violence,her inhabitants speak lies,and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.+13Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound.I have made you desolate because of your sins.+14You 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.+15You 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.+16For 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.”+Footnotes (1)
a6:10 An ephah is a measure of volume (about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel), and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers.
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