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Micah 6:1–5 – The Lord’s lawsuit and His kindness remembered

What happens: God calls mountains to hear His case against His people. He asks what He has done to weary them, then recounts His saving acts from Egypt through leaders like Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

What it means: God is righteous and addresses unfaithfulness with evidence of grace. Remembering salvation history fuels repentance and gratitude, honoring God’s covenant love.

Micah 6:6–8 – What the Lord requires

What happens: People ask what offerings will please God, even extreme ones. Micah answers that God has shown what is good: do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God.

What it means: True worship is ethical and relational, not performance. God’s holy character forms a people who reflect justice, mercy, and humble fellowship with Him.

Micah 6:9–12 – Indictment of dishonest gain

What happens: The Lord’s voice cries to the city, condemning wicked scales, violence, lies, and deceitful tongues. Wealth gathered by fraud fills their houses.

What it means: God sees corruption in daily trade and speech. Holiness includes honesty, and love of neighbor rejects exploitation and deceit.

Micah 6:13–16 – Sentence of futility and ruin

What happens: Because of sin, people eat but are never full, store but cannot keep, and sow but do not harvest. They follow the statutes of Omri and Ahab, so God makes them a horror and a scorn.

What it means: Sin breeds emptiness and collapse. God is just to hand people over to the futility they choose, warning us to reject wicked models and return to covenant paths.

Application

  • Remember God’s past mercies to strengthen present obedience.
  • Practice justice, kindness, and humble walking with God every day.
  • Renounce dishonest gain and deceitful speech before the Lord.

Bible

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.

3O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

13Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

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.

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.

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.

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