| 1 | Hear you now what Yahweh says: Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. |
| 2 | Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel. |
| 3 | My people, what have I done to you? and in which have I wearied you? testify against me. |
| 4 | For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. |
| 5 | My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him; [remember] from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh. |
| 6 | How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? |
| 7 | Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? |
| 8 | He has showed you, man, what is good; and what does Yahweh require of you, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? |
| 9 | The voice of Yahweh cries to the city, and [the man of] wisdom will see your name: hear you the rod, and who has appointed it. |
| 10 | Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable? |
| 11 | Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? |
| 12 | For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. |
| 13 | Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound; I have made you desolate because of your sins. |
| 14 | You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your humiliation shall be in the midst of you: and you shall put away, but shall not save; and that which you save will I give up to the sword. |
| 15 | You shall sow, but shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but shall not anoint you with oil; and the vintage, but shall not drink the wine. |
| 16 | For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants of it a hissing: and you shall bear the reproach of my people. |