{"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/web/micah/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:03:30.605Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Micah","bookSlug":"micah","chapter":6,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":5,"nextChapter":7,"totalChapters":7,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Listen now to what Yahweh says: |Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear, 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."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.|"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Yahweh's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: |Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Micah 6 (WEB)","markdown":"[Micah 6](https://primebible.com/web/micah/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/micah/6 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}