Micah 6:10
Verse 10 of 16. The 6th of 7 chapters in Micah, in The Minor Prophets.
6How shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
7Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
9The LORD’s voice calls to the city— and wisdom fears your name— “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
11Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights?
12Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
13Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
14You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your hunger will be within you. You will store up, but not save, and that which you save I will give up to the sword.
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.