Parallel Bible results for "micah 6:9-16"

Micah 6:9-16

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9 Yahweh's voice calls to the city, And wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, And he who appointed it.
9 Listen! The LORD is calling to the city— and to fear your name is wisdom— “Heed the rod and the One who appointed it.
10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, And a short ephah that is accursed?
10 Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house, and the short ephah, which is accursed?
11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?
11 Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales, with a bag of false weights?
12 Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
12 Your rich people are violent; your inhabitants are liars and their tongues speak deceitfully.
13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
13 Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.
14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; And that which you save I will give up to the sword.
14 You will eat but not be satisfied; your stomach will still be empty.You will store up but save nothing, because what you save I will give to the sword.
15 You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; And crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.
15 You will plant but not harvest; you will press olives but not use the oil, you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.
16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, And all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, That I may make you a ruin, And her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."
16 You have observed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their traditions. Therefore I will give you over to ruin and your people to derision; you will bear the scorn of the nations. ”
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