The Tanach, with the evidence built in
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Chapter 6
1Hear what the LORD is saying:Come, present [My] case before the mountains,And let the hills hear you pleading.
2Hear, you mountains, the case of the LORD—You firm foundations of the earth!For the LORD has a case against His people,He has a suit against Israel.
3“My people!What wrong have I done you?What hardship have I caused you?Testify against Me.
4In fact,I brought you up from the land of Egypt,I redeemed you from the house of bondage,And I sent before youMoses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5“My people,Remember what Balak king of MoabPlotted against you,And how Balaam son of BeorResponded to him.[Recall your passage]From Shittim to Gilgal—And you will recognizeThe gracious acts of the LORD.”
6With what shall I approach the LORD,Do homage to God on high?Shall I approach Him with burnt offerings,With calves a year old?
7Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,With myriads of streams of oil?Shall I give my first-born for my transgression,The fruit of my body for my sins?
8“He has told you, O man, what is good,And what the LORD requires of you:Only to do justiceAnd to love goodness,And to walk modestly with your God;
9Then will your name achieve wisdom.”Hark! The LORDSummons the city:Hear, O scepter;For who can direct her
10but you?Will I overlook, in the wicked man’s house,The granaries of wickednessAnd the accursed short ephah?
11Shall he be acquitted despite wicked balancesAnd a bag of fraudulent weights?—
12Whose rich men are full of lawlessness,And whose inhabitants speak treachery,With tongues of deceit in their mouths.
13I, in turn, have beaten you sore,Have stunned [you] for your sins:
14You have been eating without getting your fill,And there is a gnawing at your vitals;You have been conceiving without bearing young,And what you bore I would deliver to the sword.
15You have been sowing, but have nothing to reap;You have trod olives, but have no oil for rubbing,And grapes but have no wine to drink.
16Yet you have kept the laws of Omri,And all the practices of the House of Ahab,And have followed what they devised.Therefore I will make you an object of horrorAnd her inhabitants an object of hissing;And you shall bear the mockery of peoples.
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).