Micah 6:3 Cross References - LEB

³ "O my people, what have I done to you, and how have I wearied you? Answer me!

⁷ "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

⁴ Against you, only you, I have sinned and have done this evil* in your eyes, so that you are correct when you speak, you are blameless when you judge.

⁸ Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me.

¹³ Oh that my people would listen to me; that Israel would walk in my ways.

²² But* you did not call me, Jacob; for you have become weary of me, Israel. ²³ You have not brought me your sheep for a burnt offering nor* honored me with your sacrifice. I have not made you serve with offerings,* nor have I made you weary with frankincense.

⁵ Thus says Yahweh:
"What injustice did your ancestors* find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain?

³¹ O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert* to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'?

⁵ O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you might know the righteous acts of Yahweh."

⁴ May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written,
"In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are* judged."* ⁵ But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, is not unjust, is he? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.)

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God.