1Hear ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2Hear 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.[ † ]Psalms 50:1-4Isaiah 1:18Hosea 12:2 3O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.[ † ]Isaiah 5:4Jeremiah 2:5-31Isaiah 43:22-23Malachi 1:13 4For 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.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:20 5O 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 .[ † ]Numbers 22:5-6Joshua 24:9Judges 5:11
6Wherewith 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? 7Will 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?[ † ]Psalms 50:9Isaiah 1:11Job 29:6Leviticus 18:21Leviticus 20:1-52 Kings 16:3Jeremiah 7:31Ezekiel 23:37
8He 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?[ † ]Deuteronomy 10:121 Samuel 15:22Hosea 6:6Hosea 12:6Genesis 18:19Isaiah 1:17
9The 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. 10Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?[ † ]Leviticus 19:36Hosea 12:7 12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.[ † ]Isaiah 1:23Isaiah 5:7Amos 6:3-4Micah 2:1-2Jeremiah 9:2-6, 8Hosea 7:13Amos 2:4 13Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.[ † ]Leviticus 26:16Psalms 107:17 14Thou 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.[ † ]Leviticus 26:26 15Thou 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.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:38-40Amos 5:11Zephaniah 1:13Haggai 1:6
16For 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.[ † ]1 Kings 16:25-261 Kings 16:301 Kings 21:25-262 Kings 21:3Hosea 5:11Isaiah 25:8