Micah 6 NKJV

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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/micah/6.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>God Pleads with Israel</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Mic-6-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear now what the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> says:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Mic-6-1">“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-1">And let the hills hear your voice.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Hear, O you mountains, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s complaint,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-2">And you strong foundations of the earth;</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-2">For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has a complaint against His people,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-2">And He will <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>contend with Israel.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“O My people, what have I done to you?</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-3">And how have I wearied you?</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-3">Testify against Me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For I brought you up from the land of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-4">I redeemed you from the house of bondage;</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-4">And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>O My people, remember now</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-5">What Balak king of Moab counseled,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-5">And what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-5">From <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>Acacia Grove to Gilgal,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-5">That you may know the righteousness of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>With what shall I come before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-6"><i>And</i> bow myself before the High God?</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-6">Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-6">With calves a year old?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Will the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> be pleased with thousands of rams,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-7">Ten thousand rivers of oil?</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-7">Shall I give my firstborn <i>for</i> my transgression,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-7"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>The fruit of my body <i>for</i> the sin of my soul?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He has shown you, O man, what <i>is</i> good;</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-8">And what does the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> require of you</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-8">But to do justly,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-8">To love <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>mercy,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-8">And to walk humbly with your God?</span></p></div> <h3> Punishment of Israel’s Injustice</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Mic-6-9"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>’s voice cries to the city—</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-9">Wisdom shall see Your name:</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Mic-6-9">“Hear the rod!</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-9">Who has appointed it?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Are there yet the treasures of wickedness</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-10">In the house of the wicked,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-10">And the short measure <i>that is</i> an abomination?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Shall I count pure <i>those</i> with the wicked scales,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-11">And with the bag of deceitful weights?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For her rich men are full of violence,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-12">Her inhabitants have spoken lies,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-12">And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Therefore I will also make <i>you</i> sick by striking you,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-13">By making <i>you</i> desolate because of your sins.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You shall eat, but not be satisfied;</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-14"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>Hunger <i>shall be</i> in your midst.</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-14">You may carry <i>some</i> away,<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span> but shall not save <i>them;</i></span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-14">And what you do rescue I will give over to the sword.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“You shall sow, but not reap;</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-15">You shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-15">And <i>make</i> sweet wine, but not drink wine.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/micah/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For the statutes of Omri are kept;</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-16">All the works of Ahab’s house <i>are done;</i></span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-16">And you walk in their counsels,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-16">That I may make you a <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>desolation,</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-16">And your inhabitants a hissing.</span><br /><span class="text Mic-6-16">Therefore you shall bear the reproach of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>My people.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-22651a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Micah 6:2">Micah 6:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>bring charges against</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22654b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Micah 6:5">Micah 6:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Shittim,</i> <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.25.1" href="/passage/?search=Num.25.1&version=NKJV">Num. 25:1</span>; <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.2.1" href="/passage/?search=Josh.2.1&version=NKJV">Josh. 2:1</span>; <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.3.1" href="/passage/?search=Josh.3.1&version=NKJV">3:1</span></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22656c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Micah 6:7">Micah 6:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>My own child</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22657d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Micah 6:8">Micah 6:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>lovingkindness</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22663e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Micah 6:14">Micah 6:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Emptiness</i> or <i>Humiliation</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22663f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Micah 6:14">Micah 6:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Tg., Vg. <i>You shall take hold</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22665g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Micah 6:16">Micah 6:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>object of horror</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22665h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Micah 6:16">Micah 6:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX 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