1 - Hear, I pray you, that which Jehovah is saying: `Rise--strive thou with the mountains, And cause thou the hills to hear thy voice.'
2 - Hear, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones--foundations of earth! For a strife <FI>is<Fi> to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason.
3 - O My people, what have I done to thee? And what--have I wearied thee? Testify against Me.
4 - 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.
5 - 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.'
6 - 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?
7 - Is Jehovah pleased with thousands of rams? With myriads of streams of oil? Do I give my first-born <FI>for<Fi> my transgression? The fruit of my body <FI>for<Fi> the sin of my soul?
8 - He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?
9 - A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it.
10 - Are there yet <FI>in<Fi> the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?
11 - Do I reckon <FI>it<Fi> pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
12 - Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue <FI>is<Fi> deceitful in their mouth.
13 - And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.
14 - Thou--thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give.
15 - 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.
16 - 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!
