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14 You’ll eat,
    but you won’t have enough;
        and hunger will be common among you.
You’ll horde things,
    but you won’t save them,
and what you preserve
    I’ll give over to the sword.
15 You’ll plant,
    but you won’t reap.
You’ll crush the olive harvest,
    but you’ll have no oil to anoint yourself.
You’ll tread out the grapes,
    but you’ll never drink wine.
16 You keep Omri’s[a] statutes
    and observe the customs of the house of Ahab.
Because you live according to their advice,
    I’ll make you desolate
        and turn your[b] inhabitants into an object of scorn.
Therefore you will bear the shame of my people.”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:16 I.e. King Omri of Israel, father of Ahab (cf. 2Kings 8:26; 2Chr 22:2)
  2. Micah 6:16 Lit. its

14 You will eat but not be satisfied;(A)
    your stomach will still be empty.[a]
You will store up but save nothing,(B)
    because what you save[b] I will give to the sword.
15 You will plant but not harvest;(C)
    you will press olives but not use the oil,
    you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.(D)
16 You have observed the statutes of Omri(E)
    and all the practices of Ahab’s(F) house;
    you have followed their traditions.(G)
Therefore I will give you over to ruin(H)
    and your people to derision;
    you will bear the scorn(I) of the nations.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  2. Micah 6:14 Or You will press toward birth but not give birth, / and what you bring to birth
  3. Micah 6:16 Septuagint; Hebrew scorn due my people