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Micah 6 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:1 - Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:2 - Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:3 - O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:4 - For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:5 - O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.

What God Requires of Man

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:6 - With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:7 - Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:8 - He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:9 - The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:10 - Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:11 - Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:12 - For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:13 - So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:14 - You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:15 - You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:16 - For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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