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What God Requires

⁶ ‘With what shall I come before the Lord,
   and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings,
   with calves a year old?
⁷ Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
   with tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
   the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?’
⁸ He has told you, O mortal, what is good;
   and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
   and to walk humbly with your God?

Cheating and Violence to Be Punished

⁹ The voice of the Lord cries to the city
   (it is sound wisdom to fear your name):
Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!^*
10   Can I forget^* the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
   and the scant measure that is accursed?
¹¹ Can I tolerate wicked scales
   and a bag of dishonest weights?
¹² Your^* wealthy are full of violence;
   your^* inhabitants speak lies,
   with tongues of deceit in their mouths.
¹³ Therefore I have begun^* to strike you down,
   making you desolate because of your sins.
¹⁴ You shall eat, but not be satisfied,
   and there shall be a gnawing hunger within you;
you shall put away, but not save,
   and what you save, I will hand over to the sword.
¹⁵ You shall sow, but not reap;
   you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
   you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.