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¹ Hear now what Yahweh says: Arise, contend before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.² Hear, O you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.³ O my people, what have I done to you? and wherein have I wearied you? testify against me.⁴ For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of slaves; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.⁵ O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him; [remember] from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.

⁶ How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?⁷ will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?⁸ He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does Yahweh require of you, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

⁹ The voice of Yahweh cries to the city, and wisdom will see your name: hear the rod, and who has appointed it.¹⁰ Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?¹¹ Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?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.¹³ Therefore I also have smitten you with a grievous wound; I have made you desolate because of your sins.¹⁴ You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your humiliation shall be in the midst of you: and you shall put away, but shall not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.¹⁵ You shall sow, but shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint with oil; and the vintage, but shall not drink the wine.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 may make you a desolation, and her inhabitants a hissing: and you shall bear the reproach of my people.