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[1]HEAR now what the LORD says: Arise and judge upon the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
[2]Hear, O you mountains, the judgment of the LORD, listen, O you deep foundations of the earth; for the LORD will contend with his people, and he will judge Israel;
[3]O my people, what have I done to you? Or in what have I grieved you? Testify against me.
[4]Have not I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and delivered you from the house of bondage? And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam?
[5]O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab purposed against you, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal; for he knew the righteousness of the LORD
[6]With what shall I come before the LORD, and how shall I be pleasing before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, or with calves of a year old?
[7]The LORD will not be pleased with thousands of rams, nor with ten thousands of heifers; if I should offer my first-born, it is an iniquity to myself, and the fruit of my body, it is a sin against my soul.
[8]He has showed you, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of you, that you shall do justice and love mercy and be ready to walk after the LORD your God
[9]The voice of the LORD cries upon the city, preaching doctrine to those who revere his name; hear, O tribe, him who testifies against you.
[10]For there is still fire in the house of the wicked and in the storehouses of iniquity and in the short measure of deceit.
[11]How can they justify themselves with the wicked scales and with the bag of deceitful weights?
[12]For the rich men of the land are full of deceit, and its inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is treacherous in their mouth.
[13]Therefore I will begin to smite you, and will make you desolate because of your sins.
[14]You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and dysentery shall be in the midst of you; and you shall thresh wheat, but shall not keep it, and that which you retain, I will give up to the sword.
[15]You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes but you shall not drink wine.
[16]For you have kept the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have walked in their counsels; therefore I have made the land a desolation, and its inhabitants a hissing; thus you shall bear the reproach of my people
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