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    Micah · 16 verses

    Micah 6

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    The imagined offering grows from year-old calves to thousands of rams, then to ten thousand rivers of oil, and finally to the speaker’s own firstborn—a rather alarming auction in which the price keeps rising.

    A case before the hillsvv. 1–8

    The LORD calls for a hearing before mountains, hills, and the enduring foundations of the earth. There is an indictment against Israel, but the LORD then asks the accused to testify against Him: “what have I done to you?” The answer offered is a history rather than an accusation: Israel was brought up from Egypt and redeemed from slavery, with Moses, Aaron, and Miriam sent before the people. Balak’s counsel, Balaam’s answer, and the journey from Shittim to Gilgal are recalled as well. Then the question turns to offerings, rising magnificently from burnt offerings and year-old calves to thousands of rams, ten thousand rivers of oil, and the speaker’s firstborn. The LORD’s requirement is stated with striking economy: justice, mercy, and a humble walk with God.

    The city’s small measuresvv. 9–16

    The voice of the LORD now calls to the city, and the legal hearing becomes an examination of its trade and conduct. The short ephah, dishonest scales, and false weights sit alongside wealthy residents full of violence and tongues full of lies. The punishment is as exact as the wrongdoing: eating without satisfaction, acquiring without keeping, sowing without reaping, pressing olives without oil, and treading grapes without wine. At the end, the city’s inhabitants have followed the statutes of Omri and the practices of Ahab’s house, and the LORD declares that their desolation will become an object of contempt and their scorn will be carried by the nations.

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    1. Mic 6:1Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

    2. Mic 6:2Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:

    3. Mic 6:3‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you!

    4. Mic 6:4For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.

    5. Mic 6:5My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”

    6. Mic 6:6With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?

    7. Mic 6:7Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

    8. Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

    9. Mic 6:9The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.

    10. Mic 6:10Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

    11. Mic 6:11Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

    12. Mic 6:12For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

    13. Mic 6:13Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.

    14. Mic 6:14You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.

    15. Mic 6:15You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

    16. Mic 6:16You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

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    • 8Deuteronomy 10:12–13And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
    • 8Proverbs 21:3To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
    • 8Colossians 3:12Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
    • 8Jeremiah 22:3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
    • 8Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
    • 1Jeremiah 22:29O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!
    • 81 Samuel 15:22But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
    • 1Deuteronomy 32:1Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
    • 8Isaiah 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
    • 81 Peter 3:8Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
    • 8Luke 6:36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
    • 1Micah 1:2Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
    • 1Ezekiel 36:1“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.
    • 8Amos 5:24But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
    • 1Psalms 50:4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
    • 1Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

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