Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. It is the Heavenly Father’s will thus to exercise them so as to put His own children to a definite test. Beginning with Christ, His first-born, He follows this plan with all His children.
John Calvin

Bible – English_World – Micah Chapter 6:1-16.

Index: World English Bible

 

Micah 6

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6:1 Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills hear what you have to say.

6:2 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.

6:3 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

6:4 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.

6:5 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.”

6:6 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?

6:7 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?

6:8 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?

6:9 Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, And wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, And he who appointed it.

6:10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, And a short ephah{An ephah is a measure of volume, and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers.} that is accursed?

6:11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, And with a bag of deceitful weights?

6:12 Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

6:13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

6:14 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.

6:15 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.

6:16 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.”