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Micah 6

16 aligned verses; 16 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Hear , I pray you , that which Jehovah is saying: `Rise -- strive thou with the mountains, And cause thou the hills to hear thy voice. '
Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise , contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
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 .
Hear ye , O mountains, the LORD's controversy , and ye strong foundations of the earth : for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
O My people, what have I done to thee? And what -- have I wearied thee? Testify against Me.
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
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.
For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants ; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
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 . '
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted , and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal ; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD .
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?
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God ? shall I come before him with burnt offerings , with calves of a year old ?
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?
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams , or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression , the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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?
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly , and to love mercy , and to walk humbly with thy God?
A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth , And wisdom doth fear Thy name , Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it.
The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name : hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
Are there yet ` in ' the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness , And the abhorred scanty ephah ?
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable ?
Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones ?
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances , and with the bag of deceitful weights ?
Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood , And their tongue ` is ' deceitful in their mouth.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies , and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
And I also , I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate , because of thy sins.
Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee , in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
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.
Thou shalt eat , but not be satisfied ; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold , but shalt not deliver ; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword .
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.
Thou shalt sow , but thou shalt not reap ; thou shalt tread the olives , but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil ; and sweet wine , but shalt not drink wine.
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!
For the statutes of Omri are kept , and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels ; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing : therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people .

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