1Hear you^2f now what the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) says; Arise, contend youⁱ before the mountains, and let the hills hear youⁱ voice.

2Hear you^2f, O mountains, the LORD-Yehovah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] controversy, and you^2f strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

3O my people, what have I done unto youⁱ? and wherein have I wearied youⁱ? testify against me.

4For I brought youⁱ up out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and redeemed youⁱ out of the house of servants; and I sent before youⁱ Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], Aharon [Bright, Very High], and Miryam [rebellion].

5O my people, remember now what Balak [Devastator] king of Mo’av [Seed of my Father] consulted, and what Bil’am [Not of the People] the son of B’or [Burning] answered him from Sheetim [The Acacias] unto Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling]; that you^2f may know the righteousness of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

6Wherewith shall I come before the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [and] bow myself before the high God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

7Will the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?

8He has showed youⁱ, O man, what [is] good; and what does the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) require of youⁱ, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with yourⁱ God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]?

9The LORD-Yehovah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] voice cries unto the city, and [the man of] wisdom shall see youⁱ name: hear you^2f the rod, and who has appointed it.

10Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?

11Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.

13Therefore also will I make [youⁱ] sick in attacking youⁱ, in making [youⁱ] desolate because of yourⁱ sins.

14youⁱ shall eat, but not be satisfied; and yourⁱ casting down [shall be] in the midst of youⁱ; and youⁱ shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and [that] which youⁱ deliver will I give up to the sword.

15youⁱ shall sow, but youⁱ shall not reap; youⁱ shall trample the olives, but youⁱ shall not anoint yourselfi with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.

16For the statutes of ‘Omri [pupil of Yehovah] are kept, and all the works of the house of Ach’av [father’s brother], and you^2f walk in their counsels; that I should make youⁱ a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore you^2f shall bear the reproach (disgrace; shame) of my people.