Miqueas 6:1-7

1 Oíd ahora lo que dice el SEÑOR: Levántate, litiga con los montes, y oigan las colinas tu voz.

2 Oíd, montes, la acusación del SEÑOR, y vosotros, perdurables cimientos de la tierra, porque el SEÑOR tiene litigio contra su pueblo, y con Israel entablará juicio.

3 Pueblo mío, ¿qué te he hecho, o en qué te he molestado? ¡Respóndeme!

4 Pues yo te hice subir de la tierra de Egipto, y de la casa de servidumbre te redimí, y envié delante de ti a Moisés, a Aarón y a Miriam.

5 Pueblo mío, acuérdate ahora de lo que maquinó Balac, rey de Moab, y de lo que le respondió Balaam, hijo de Beor, desde Sitim hasta Gilgal, para que conozcas las justicias del SEÑOR.

6 ¿Con qué me presentaré al SEÑOR y me postraré ante el Dios de lo alto? ¿Me presentaré delante de El con holocaustos, con becerros de un año?

7 ¿Se agrada el SEÑOR de millares de carneros, de miríadas de ríos de aceite? ¿Ofreceré mi primogénito por mi rebeldía, el fruto de mis entrañas por el pecado de mi alma?

Miqueas 6:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 6

This chapter contains reproofs of the people of Israel for their sins, threatening them with punishment for them. The prophet is bid to tell them of the controversy the Lord had with them, which he did, Mic 6:1,2; and the Lord calls upon them to declare if they had any thing to object to his attitude towards them, Mic 6:3; and then puts them in mind of the favours they had received from him, in bringing them out of Egypt, and giving them such useful persons to go before them, lead and instruct them, as he had, Mic 6:4; and also reminds them of what passed between Balak, king of Moab, and Balaam the soothsayer; the questions of the one, and the answer of the other; whereby the designs of the former against them were frustrated, Mic 6:5-8; but since the voice of the Lord by his prophet was disregarded by them, they are called upon to hearken to the voice of his rod, Mic 6:9; which should be laid upon them for their fraudulent dealings, injustice, oppression, lies, and deceit, Mic 6:10-12; and therefore are threatened with sickness and desolation, and a deprivation of all good things, the fruit of their labours, Mic 6:13-15; and that because the statutes of Omri, the works of Ahab, and their counsels, were observed by them, Mic 6:16.