6. With what shall I come before the Lord,and bow before God most 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 myriad streams of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my crime,the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8. You have been told, O mortal, what is good,and what the Lord requires of you:Only to do justice and to love goodness,and to walk humbly with your God.
9. The Lord cries aloud to the city(It is prudent to fear your name!):Hear, O tribe and city assembly,
10. Am I to bear criminal hoardingand the accursed short ephah?
11. Shall I acquit crooked scales,bags of false weights?
12. You whose wealthy are full of violence,whose inhabitants speak falsehoodwith deceitful tongues in their mouths!
13. I have begun to strike youwith devastation because of your sins.
14. You shall eat, without being satisfied,food that will leave you empty;What you acquire, you cannot save;what you do save, I will deliver up to the sword.
15. You shall sow, yet not reap,tread out the olive, yet pour no oil,crush the grapes, yet drink no wine.