{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/micah/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T21:59:28.555Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Micah","bookSlug":"micah","chapter":6,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":5,"nextChapter":7,"totalChapters":7,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Hear you now what the LORD said; Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear you, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and you strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"O my people, what have I done to you? and wherein have I wearied you? testify against me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of servants; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"With which shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The LORD's voice cries to the city, and the man of wisdom shall see your name: hear you the rod, and who has appointed it."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Therefore also will I make you sick in smiting you, in making you desolate because of your sins."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down shall be in the middle of you; and you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliver will I give up to the sword."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint you with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people."}],"citation":{"inline":"Micah 6 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Micah 6](https://primebible.com/akjv/micah/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/micah/6 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}