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| 6:1 | Heare yee now what the Lord saith, Arise, contend thou before the mountaines, and let the hilles heare thy voice. |
| 6:2 | Heare yee, O mountaines, the Lords controuersie, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controuersie with his people, and he will pleade with Israel. |
| 6:3 | O my people, what haue I done vnto thee, and wherein haue I wearied thee? Testifie against me. |
| 6:4 | For I brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of seruants, and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron and Miriam. |
| 6:5 | O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the sonne of Beor answered him from Shittim vnto Gilgal, that yee may know the righteousnesse of the Lord. |
| 6:6 | Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow my selfe before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calues of a yeere olde? |
| 6:7 | Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rammes, or with tenne thousands of riuers of oyle? Shall I giue my first borne for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sinne of my soule? |
| 6:8 | Hee hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doeth the Lord require of thee, but to do iustly, and to loue mercy, and to walke humbly with thy God? |
| 6:9 | The Lords voice cryeth vnto the citie, and the man of wisedome shall see thy Name: heare ye the rodde, and who hath appointed it. |
| 6:10 | Are there yet the treasures of wickednesse in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable. |
| 6:11 | Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitfull weights? |
| 6:12 | For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth. |
| 6:13 | Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes. |
| 6:14 | Thou shalt eate, but not be satisfied, and thy casting downe shall be in the midst of thee, and thou shalt take holde, but shalt not deliuer: & that which thou deliuerest, will I giue vp to the sword. |
| 6:15 | Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reape: thou shalt tread the oliues, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oile; & sweet wine, but shalt not drinke wine. |
| 6:16 | For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the workes of the house of Ahab, and ye walke in their counsels, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore yee shall beare the reproch of my people. |
| 6:1 | Hearken ye nowe what the Lord sayth, Arise thou, and contende before the mountaines, and let the hilles heare thy voyce. |
| 6:2 | Heare ye, O mountaynes, the Lordes quarel, and ye mightie foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a quarell against his people, and he will pleade with Israel. |
| 6:3 | O my people, what haue I done vnto thee? or wherin haue I grieued thee? testifie against me. |
| 6:4 | Surely I brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of seruants, and I haue sent before thee, Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. |
| 6:5 | O my people, remember nowe what Balak King of Moab had deuised, and what Balaam the sonne of Beor answered him, from Shittim vnto Gilgal, that ye may knowe the righteousnes of the Lord. |
| 6:6 | Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bowe my selfe before the hie God? Shall I come before him with burnt offrings, and with calues of a yeere olde? |
| 6:7 | Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand riuers of oyle? shall I giue my first borne for my transgression, euen the fruite of my bodie, for the sinne of my soule? |
| 6:8 | He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: surely to doe iustly, and to loue mercie, and to humble thy selfe, to walke with thy God. |
| 6:9 | The Lordes voyce cryeth vnto the citie, and the man of wisedome shall see thy name: Heare the rodde, and who hath appoynted it. |
| 6:10 | Are yet the treasures of wickednes in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure, that is abominable? |
| 6:11 | Shall I iustifie the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitfull weightes? |
| 6:12 | For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, and the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth. |
| 6:13 | Therefore also will I make thee sicke in smiting thee, and in making thee desolate, because of thy sinnes. |
| 6:14 | Thou shalt eate and not be satisfied, and thy casting downe shall be in the mids of thee, and thou shalt take holde, but shalt not deliuer: and that which thou deliuerest, will I giue vp to the sworde. |
| 6:15 | Thou shalt sowe, but not reape: thou shalt treade the oliues, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oyle, and make sweete wine, but shalt not drinke wine. |
| 6:16 | For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the maner of the house of Ahab, and ye walke in their counsels, that I should make thee waste, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall beare the reproche of my people. |
| 6:1 | Herken now what the Lord sayeth: Up, reproue the mountaynes, & lett the hylles heare thy voyce. |
| 6:2 | O heare the punishement of the Lord, ye mountaynes, & ye mightie foundacions of the earth: for the Lord will reproue his people, & reason wt Israel. |
| 6:3 | O my people, what haue I done vnto the? or wherin haue I hurte the? geue me answere. |
| 6:4 | Because I brought the from the lande of Egipte, and deliuered the out of the house of bondage? Because I made Moses, Aaron and Miriam to lede the? |
| 6:5 | Remembre (O my people) what Balach the kyng of Moab had Imagyned agaynst the and what answere that Balaam the sonne of Beor gaue him, from Sethim vnto Galgal, that ye maye knowe the louyng kyndnesses of the Lorde. |
| 6:6 | What acceptable thinge shall I offre vnto the Lord? shal I bowe my knee to the hie God? Shall I come before hym with brentoffrynges, and wyth calues of a yeare olde? |
| 6:7 | Hath the Lord a pleasure in many thousand rammes, or innumerable streames of oyle? Or shall I geue my fyrst borne for myne offences, & the frute of my body for the synne of my soule? |
| 6:8 | I will shewe the, O man, what is good, & what the Lorde requyreth of the Namely, to do right, to haue pleasure in louinge kyndnesse, to be lowly, & to walcke wt thy God, |
| 6:9 | The Lordes voyce crieth vnto the citye, & the man that shall be saued considerethe thy name (O Lorde) Herken what is your rodde, & here him that warnith you? |
| 6:10 | Shuld I not be displeased, for the vnrightuous good in the houses of the wycked, & because the measure his mynished? |
| 6:11 | Or shulde I iustifie the false balaunces and the bagge of disceatfull weyghtes, |
| 6:12 | amonge those that be full of riches vnryghtuously gotten: where the cytesins deale with falshede, speake lyes, & haue disceatfull tunges in their mouthes? |
| 6:13 | Therfore, I will take in hande to punish the, & to make the desolate, because of thy sinnes. |
| 6:14 | Thou shalt eate, & not haue ynough: yee, thou shalt bringe thy selfe downe. Thou shalt fle, but not escape: & those that thou woldest saue, will I delyuer to the swerde. |
| 6:15 | Thou shalt sowe, but not reape: thou shalt presse out oliues, but oyle shalt thou not haue to anoynte thy selfe withall: thou shalt treade out swete must, but shalt dryncke no wyne. |
| 6:16 | Ye kepe the ordinaunces of Amri, and all the customes of the house of Ahab: ye folowe their pleasures, therfore wyll I make the waste, and cause thy inhabyters to be abhorred, O my people: & thus shalt thou beare thyne awne shame. |
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