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    "language": "en",
    "book": "micah",
    "chapter": 6
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    "bookSlug": "micah",
    "bookCode": "MIC",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "MIC-6:1",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.1",
        "text": "Listen now to what Yahweh says:\n“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,\nand let the hills hear what you have to say."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "MIC-6:2",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.2",
        "text": "Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy,\nand you enduring foundations of the earth;\nfor Yahweh has a controversy with his people,\nand he will contend with Israel."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "MIC-6:3",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.3",
        "text": "My people, what have I done to you?\nHow have I burdened you?\nAnswer me!"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "MIC-6:4",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.4",
        "text": "For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,\nand redeemed you out of the house of bondage.\nI sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "MIC-6:5",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.5",
        "text": "My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised,\nand what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal,\nthat you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "MIC-6:6",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.6",
        "text": "How shall I come before Yahweh,\nand bow myself before the exalted God?\nShall I come before him with burnt offerings,\nwith calves a year old?"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "MIC-6:7",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.7",
        "text": "Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams?\nWith tens of thousands of rivers of oil?\nShall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?\nThe fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "MIC-6:8",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.8",
        "text": "He has shown you, O man, what is good.\nWhat does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly,\nto love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "MIC-6:9",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.9",
        "text": "Yahweh’s voice calls to the city,\nand wisdom sees your name:\n“Listen to the rod,\nand he who appointed it."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "MIC-6:10",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.10",
        "text": "Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,\nand a short ephah that is accursed?"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "MIC-6:11",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.11",
        "text": "Shall I be pure with dishonest scales,\nand with a bag of deceitful weights?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "MIC-6:12",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.12",
        "text": "Her rich men are full of violence,\nher inhabitants speak lies,\nand their tongue is deceitful in their speech."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "MIC-6:13",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.13",
        "text": "Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound.\nI have made you desolate because of your sins."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "MIC-6:14",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.14",
        "text": "You shall eat, but not be satisfied.\nYour humiliation will be within you.\nYou will store up, but not save;\nand that which you save I will give up to the sword."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "MIC-6:15",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.15",
        "text": "You will sow, but won’t reap.\nYou will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil;\nand crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "MIC-6:16",
        "verseRef": "MIC.6.16",
        "text": "For the statutes of Omri are kept,\nand all the works of Ahab’s house.\nYou walk in their counsels,\nthat I may make you a ruin,\nand her inhabitants a hissing;\nAnd you will bear the reproach of my people.”"
      }
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