1: Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou
before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. |
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2: Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong
foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his
people, and he will plead with Israel. |
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3:
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I
wearied thee? testify against me. |
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4: For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed
thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron,
and Miriam. |
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5: O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted,
and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal;
that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD. |
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6: Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before
the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves
of a year old? |
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7: Will the LORD 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? |
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8: He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the
LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with thy God? |
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9: The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom
shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. |
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10: Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the
wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? |
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11: Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with
the bag of deceitful weights? |
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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. |
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13: Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in
making thee desolate because of thy sins. |
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14: Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down
shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not
deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
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15: Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the
olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but
shalt not drink wine. |
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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 should make thee a
desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall
bear the reproach of my people. |