{"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/ylt/micah/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T09:30:46.519Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Micah","bookSlug":"micah","chapter":6,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":5,"nextChapter":7,"totalChapters":7,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Hear, I pray you, that which Jehovah is saying: 'Rise — strive thou with the mountains, And cause thou the hills to hear thy voice.'"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones — foundations of earth! For a strife is to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"O My people, what have I done to thee? And what — have I wearied thee? Testify against Me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, And from the house of servants I have ransomed thee, And I send before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"O My people, remember, I pray you, What counsel did Balak king of Moab, What answer him did Balaam son of Beor, (From Shittim unto Gilgal,) In order to know the righteous acts of Jehovah.'"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"With what do I come before Jehovah? Do I bow to God Most High? Do I come before Him with burnt-offerings? With calves — sons of a year?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Is Jehovah pleased with thousands of rams? With myriads of streams of oil? Do I give my first-born for my transgression? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He hath declared to thee, O man, what is good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except — to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Are there yet in the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Do I reckon it pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thou — thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit is in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Thou — thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou — thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine — and thou drinkest not wine."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Micah 6 (YLT)","markdown":"[Micah 6](https://primebible.com/ylt/micah/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/micah/6 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}