Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NKJV

NKJV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Micah 6 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles
CHAPTER 6
God Pleads with Israel
God Pleads with Israel
1 Hear now what the LORD says:
​
​​“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
​​And let the hills hear your voice.
2 ​​Hear, O you mountains, the LORD’s complaint,
​​And you strong foundations of the earth;
​​For the LORD has a complaint against His people,
​​And He will contend with Israel.
​
3 ​​“O My people, what have I done to you?
​​And how have I wearied you?
​​Testify against Me.
4 ​​For I brought you up from the land of Egypt,
​​I redeemed you from the house of bondage;
​​And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 ​​O My people, remember now
​​What Balak king of Moab counseled,
​​And what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,
​​From Acacia Grove[fn] to Gilgal,
​​That you may know the righteousness of the LORD.”
​
6 ​​With what shall I come before the LORD,
​​And bow myself before the High God?
​​Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,
​​With calves a year old?
7 ​​Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
​​Ten thousand rivers of oil?
​​Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
​​The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
​
8 ​​He has shown you, O man, what is good;
​​And what does the LORD require of you
​​But to do justly,
​​To love mercy,
​​And to walk humbly with your God?
​
Punishment of Israel’s Injustice
9 ​​The LORD’s voice cries to the city—
​​Wisdom shall see Your name:
​
​​“Hear the rod!
​​Who has appointed it?
10 ​​Are there yet the treasures of wickedness
​​In the house of the wicked,
​​And the short measure that is an abomination?
11 ​​Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales,
​​And with the bag of deceitful weights?
12 ​​For her rich men are full of violence,
​​Her inhabitants have spoken lies,
​​And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
​
13 ​​“Therefore I will also make you sick by striking you,
​​By making you desolate because of your sins.
14 ​​You shall eat, but not be satisfied;
​​Hunger[fn] shall be in your midst.
​​You may carry some away,[fn] but shall not save them;
​​And what you do rescue I will give over to the sword.
​
15 ​​“You shall sow, but not reap;
​​You shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
​​And make sweet wine, but not drink wine.
16 ​​For the statutes of Omri are kept;
​​All the works of Ahab’s house are done;
​​And you walk in their counsels,
​​That I may make you a desolation,
​​And your inhabitants a hissing.
​​Therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.”[fn]
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Hebrew Shittim (compare Numbers 25:1; Joshua 2:1; 3:1)
Or Emptiness or Humiliation
Targum and Vulgate read You shall take hold.
Following Masoretic Text, Targum, and Vulgate; Septuagint reads of nations.
NKJV

New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

The text of the New King James Version (NKJV) appearing on or deriving from this or any other web page is for personal use only. Any other use of the NKJV must be in conformity with the Quotation Policy for the New King James Version. For more information about the New King James Version, the Quotation Policy, and for inquiries about permission to use the New King James Version, go to Thomas Nelson, Inc..

For more information on this translation, see the NKJV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NKJV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NKJV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Micah Chapter 6 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras