6: 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.
6: 3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
6: 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.
6: 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: 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?
6: 7 will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
6: 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?
6: 9 The voice of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will 37see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
37Sept., Aram., Vg. read fear
6: 10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant 38measure that is abominable?
38Hb. ephah [about 22 litre]
6: 11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
6: 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.
6: 13 Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.
6: 14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy 39humiliation 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.
39Or, emptiness
6: 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.
6: 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 40a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
40Or, an astonishment,
