web Micah:6:9-16
web@Micah:6:9 @ Yahweh's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
web@Micah:6:10 @ Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah {An ephah is a measure of volume (about 22 litres or about 23 of a bushel), and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers.} that is accursed?
web@Micah:6:11 @ Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
web@Micah:6:12 @ Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
web@Micah:6:13 @ Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
web@Micah:6:14 @ You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
web@Micah:6:15 @ You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.
web@Micah:6:16 @ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."