Micah 6

1 to hear: hear please [obj] which LORD to say to arise: rise to contend with [the] mountain: mount and to hear: hear [the] hill voice your

Listen to what the Lord is saying. Stand up and plead your case. Let the mountains and the hills hear your voice.

2 to hear: hear mountain: mount [obj] strife LORD and [the] strong foundation land: country/planet for strife to/for LORD with people his and with Israel to rebuke

And now, mountains, hear the Lord's argument. Listen, everlasting foundations of the earth, for the Lord has a case against his people. He will bring charges against Israel.

3 people my what? to make: do to/for you and what? be weary you to answer in/on/with me

My people, what have I done to you? What is it that I have done to make you tired of me?

4 for to ascend: establish you from land: country/planet Egypt and from house: home servant/slave to ransom you and to send: depart to/for face: before your [obj] Moses Aaron and Miriam

For I brought you out of the land of Egypt and rescued you from slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.

5 people my to remember please what? to advise Balak king Moab and what? to answer [obj] him Balaam son: child Beor from [the] Shittim till [the] Gilgal because to know righteousness LORD

My people, remember what Balak, king of Moab, planned to do, and what Balaam, son of Beor, told him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so you could know all the good things the Lord does.

6 in/on/with what? to meet LORD to bend to/for God height to meet him in/on/with burnt offering in/on/with calf son: aged year

What should I take with me when I approach the Lord, when I bow down before the God of heaven? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

7 to accept LORD in/on/with thousand ram in/on/with myriad torrent: river oil to give: give firstborn my transgression my fruit belly: body my sin soul my

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I sacrifice my firstborn child for my rebellion, my own flesh and blood for the sins I have committed?

8 to tell to/for you man what? pleasant and what? LORD to seek from you that if: except if: except to make: do justice and to love: lover kindness and be humble to go: walk with God your

The Lord has told you what is good, and what the Lord asks from you: to do what is right, to love kindness, and to walk in humility with your God.

9 voice LORD to/for city to call: call to and wisdom to see: see name your to hear: hear tribe: rod and who? to appoint her

The voice of the Lord calls to the city—to respect your name is to be wise—pay attention to the rod and who summoned it.

10 still there is house: home wicked treasure wickedness and ephah leanness be indignant

Are there still ill-gotten gains in the houses of the wicked? Are they still using dishonest measures in selling grain?

11 to clean in/on/with balance wickedness and in/on/with purse stone: weight deceit

How can I accept those who use unfair scales and dishonest weights?

12 which rich her to fill violence and to dwell her to speak: speak deception and tongue their deceit in/on/with lip their

Your rich people make money by using violence; they tell lies and practice deceit.

13 and also I be weak: ill to smite you be desolate: destroyed upon sin your

So I will strike you to make you ill; I will ruin you because of your sins.

14 you(m. s.) to eat and not to satisfy and emptiness your in/on/with entrails: among your and to remove and not to escape and which to escape to/for sword to give: give

You will eat, but never be satisfied; inside you will still feel hungry. Even though you try to save money, what you save won't be worth anything because I will give it to the sword.

15 you(m. s.) to sow and not to reap you(m. s.) to tread olive and not to anoint oil and new wine and not to drink wine

You will sow, but you won't reap; you will press your olives, but not use the oil; you will make your wine, but drink none of it.

16 and to keep: obey statute Omri and all deed house: household Ahab and to go: walk in/on/with counsel their because to give: make I [obj] you to/for horror: destroyed and to dwell her to/for hissing and reproach people my to lift: bear

You have kept the laws of Omri, and adopted all the practices of the house of Ahab, you have followed their ways. So I will make your country desolate and the people who live there an object of scorn; you will bear the shame of my people.