1 Hear you now what the LORD said; Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. Compare verse2 commentaries
2 Hear you, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and you strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. Compare verse1 commentary
3 O my people, what have I done to you? and wherein have I wearied you? testify against me. Compare verse4 commentaries
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. Compare verse1 commentary
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. Compare verse3 commentaries
6 With which 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? Compare verse4 commentaries
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? Compare verse3 commentaries
8 He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? Compare verse8 commentaries
9 The LORD's voice cries to the city, and the man of wisdom shall see your name: hear you the rod, and who has appointed it. Compare verse
10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Compare verse2 commentaries
11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? Compare verse1 commentary
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. Compare verse1 commentary
13 Therefore also will I make you sick in smiting you, in making you desolate because of your sins. Compare verse1 commentary
14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down shall be in the middle of you; and you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliver will I give up to the sword. Compare verse1 commentary
15 You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint you with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine. Compare verse1 commentary
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 thereof an hissing: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people. Compare verse2 commentaries