6 With what shall I come before the Lord,

And bow myself before the High God?

Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,

With calves a year old?

7 iWill the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,

Ten thousand jrivers of oil?

kShall I give my firstborn for my transgression,

3The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8 He has lshown you, O man, what is good;

And what does the Lord require of you

But mto do justly,

To love 4mercy,

And to walk humbly with your God?

Punishment of Israel’s Injustice

9 The Lord’s voice cries to the city—

Wisdom shall see Your name:

“Hear the rod!

Who has appointed it?

10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness

In the house of the wicked,

And the short measure that is an abomination?

11 Shall I count pure those with nthe wicked scales,

And with the bag of deceitful weights?

12 For her rich men are full of oviolence,

Her inhabitants have spoken lies,

And ptheir tongue is deceitful in their mouth.