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[1]Hear ye now what 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
[2]Hear, O ye mountains, 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇'S controversy, and ye enduring rocks, the foundations of the earth; for 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 hath a controversy with His people, and He will plead 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; from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇.
[6]'Wherewith shall I come before 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before Him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year old?
[7]Will 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born fo transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?'
[8]It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, and what 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 doth require of thee: only to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.
[9]Hark! 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 crieth unto the city—and it is wisdom to have regard for Thy name—hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
[10]Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the 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 do smite thee with a grievous wound; I do make thee desolate because of thy sins.
[14]Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy sickness shall be in thine inward parts; and thou shalt conceive, but shalt not bring forth; and whomsoever thou bringest forth 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 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 an astonishment, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of My people.
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