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^1 (a)Hear what the Lord says:
Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
    and let the hills hear your voice.
^2 (b)Hear, you mountains, ^(c)the indictment of the Lord,
    and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has an indictment against his people,
    and he will contend with Israel.

³ "O my people, ^(d)what have I done to you?
    ^(e)How have I wearied you? Answer me!
⁴ For ^(f)I brought you up from the land of Egypt
    and ^(g)redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
    Aaron, and ^(h)Miriam.
⁵ O my people, remember ⁽ⁱ⁾what Balak king of Moab devised,
    and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from ^(j)Shittim to Gilgal,
    that you may know ^(k)the righteous acts of the Lord."

^6 (l)"With what shall I come before the Lord,
    and bow myself before ^(m)God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
    with calves a year old?
^7 (n)Will the Lord be pleased with^[a] thousands of rams,
    with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
^(o)Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"
⁸ He has told you, O man, what is good;
    and ^(p)what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,^[b]
    and to ^(q)walk humbly with your God?

⁹ The voice of the Lord cries to the city—
    and it is sound wisdom to fear ^(r)your name:
"Hear of ^(s)the rod and of him who appointed it!^[c]
10     Can I forget any longer the treasures^[d] of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
    and the scant measure that is accursed?
¹¹ Shall I acquit the man ^(t)with wicked scales
    and with a bag of deceitful weights?
¹² Your^[e] rich men are ^(u)full of violence;
    your inhabitants ^(v)speak lies,
    and ^(w)their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
¹³ Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow,
    ^(x)making you desolate because of your sins.
^14 (y)You shall eat, but not be satisfied,
    and there shall be hunger within you;
you shall put away, but not preserve,
    and what you preserve I will give to the sword.
^15 (z)You shall sow, but not reap;
    you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
    you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
¹⁶ For you have kept the statutes of ^(aa)Omri,^[f]
    and all the works of the house of ^(ab)Ahab;
    and you have walked in their counsels,
that I may make you ^(ac)a desolation, and your^[g] inhabitants ^(ad)a hissing;
    so you shall bear ^(ae)the scorn of my people."