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

Hear now what the Lord is saying: Arise, present your complaint before the mountains, let 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

Hear, mountains, the Lord’s accusation, listen, foundations of the earth. For the Lord has a case against his people. He has a dispute with 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? How have I displeased you? Answer 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 up from the land of Egypt, from the land of slavery I redeemed you. 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, what did Balak, king of Moab counsel? And how did Balaam, the son of Beor, answer him? Remember now the journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you might realise the just deeds of the Lord.’

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

With what should I come before the Lord? Bow myself before the God on high? Should 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, With ten thousand streams of oil? Should I give him my firstborn son for my guilt, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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, what he demands of you: Only to do justice and love mercy, and to walk humbly 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

Listen! The Lord calls to the city! Listen, tribe and assembly of the city!

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

‘Can I forget the hoarded treasures in the houses of the wicked, and the accursed scant measure?

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

Can I leave her unpunished because of evil scales, and the bag of false 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

Whose rich people are full of violence, her inhabitants liars, whose tongues speak deceit?

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

‘But I indeed, have begun to punish you, to lay you in ruins 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 not be satisfied, your stomach empty within you. You will store up but lose everything, because whatever you save I will give 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 not reap. You will tread the olives but have no oil for rubbing, tread grapes but drink no wine!

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

‘For you have followed the commands of Omri, and all the practices of the house of Ahab. You have acted in accord with their counsels, so I will give you up to ruin, the city’s inhabitants to derision. The nations will treat you with contempt!’