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Answer me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>For I brought you up from the land of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and redeemed you from the house of slavery;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and I sent before you Moses,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Aaron, and Miriam.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">what Balaam son of Beor answered him,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">that you may know the saving acts of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.”</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">What God Requires</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>“With what shall I come before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and bow myself before God on high?</span></span><br /><span class="text">Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">with calves a year old?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Will the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> be pleased with thousands of rams,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">with ten thousands of rivers of oil?</span></span><br /><span class="text">Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>He has told you, O mortal, what is good;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and what does the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> require of you</span></span><br /><span class="text">but to do justice, and to love kindness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and to walk humbly with your God?</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Cheating and Violence to Be Punished</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The voice of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> cries to the city</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">(it is sound wisdom to fear your name):</span></span><br /><span class="text">Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26930a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span>Can I forget<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26931b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the scant measure that is accursed?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Can I tolerate wicked scales</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and a bag of dishonest weights?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Your<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26933c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> wealthy are full of violence;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">your<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26933d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> inhabitants speak lies,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">with tongues of deceit in their mouths.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Therefore I have begun<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26934e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> to strike you down,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">making you desolate because of your sins.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>You shall eat, but not be satisfied,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and there shall be a gnawing hunger within you;</span></span><br /><span class="text">you shall put away, but not save,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and what you save, I will hand over to the sword.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>You shall sow, but not reap;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>For you have kept the statutes of Omri<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26937f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and all the works of the house of Ahab,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and you have followed their counsels.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26937g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> inhabitants an object of hissing;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so you shall bear the scorn of my people.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 6:9">Micah 6:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn Compare Gk: Heb <i>tribe, and who has appointed it yet?</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 6:10">Micah 6:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 6:12">Micah 6:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>Whose</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 6:12">Micah 6:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>whose</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 6:13">Micah 6:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Vg: Heb <i>have made sick</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 6:16">Micah 6:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb <i>the statutes of Omri are kept</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Micah 6:16">Micah 6:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>its</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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