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Hear now what Yahuah says: “Rise, contend before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
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Hear, mountains, the controversy of Yahuah, and you enduring foundations of the earth. For Yahuah has a controversy with His People, and with Yisra’el He will contend.
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My people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Answer Me.
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For I brought you up from the land of Mitzrayim, and from the house of bondage I redeemed you. And I sent before you Mosheh, Aharon, and Miryam.
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My people, remember now what Balaq king of Moav counseled, and what Bil’am son of Be’or answered him, from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the Righteousness of Yahuah.”
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With what shall I come before Yahuah and bow myself before Elohim on high? Shall I come before Him with ascending offerings, with calves a year old?
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Will Yahuah be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of streams of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my being?
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He has declared to you, Adam, what is good. And what does Yahuah seek from you but to do Judgment, and to love Covenant-Faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your Elohim?
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The voice of Yahuah calls to the city, and wisdom shall see Your Name: “Hear the rod, and the One who appointed it.
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Are there still in the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness and a diminished ephah that is cursed?
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Shall I be clean with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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Her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak falsehood, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
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Therefore I also have begun to strike you, making you desolate because of your sins.
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You shall eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness shall remain within you. And you shall move things away but shall not rescue them, and what you rescue I will give to the sword.
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You shall sow but shall not reap. You shall tread olives but shall not anoint yourself with oil, and new wine but shall not drink wine.
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For the statutes of Omri are guarded, and all the works of the House of Achav, and you walk in their counsels. Therefore I will give you for desolation, and her inhabitants for hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of My people.”