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1 Hear now what the LORD [Yahweh] says to you; Arise, contend before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
2 Hear, O you mountains, the LORD [Yahweh]'S controversy, and you strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD [Yahweh] has a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
3 O my people, what have I done to you? and in which have I wearied you? testify against me.
4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of servants; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD [Yahweh].
6 With what will I come before the LORD [Yahweh], [and] bow myself before the high God? will I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD [Yahweh] be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? will I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?
8 He has showed you, O man, what [is] good; and what does the LORD [Yahweh] require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
9 The LORD [Yahweh]'S voice cries to the city, and [the man of] wisdom will see your name: listen to the rod, and He who has appointed it.
10 Are there still the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the undersized measure [that is] abominable?
11 Will I count [them] pure with the wrong balances, and with the bag of false weights?
12 For its rich men are full of violence, and its inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.
13 Therefore also will I make [you] sick in smiting you, in making [you] desolate because of your sins.
14 You will eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down [will be] in the midst of you; and you will take hold, but will not deliver; and [that] which you deliver will I give up to the sword.
15 You will sow, but you will not reap; you will tread the olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil; and sweet wine, but will not drink wine.
16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants of it a hissing: therefore you will bear the reproach of my people.