“Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
Micah 6:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O My people, what have I done to you? And in what have I wearied you? Testify against Me [answer Me]! American Standard Version (1901) O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. Common English Bible “My people, what did I ever do to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me! Catholic Public Domain Version My people, what have I done to you, or how have I assailed you? Respond to me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version O my people, what have I done to thee, or in what have I molested thee? answer thou me. |
“Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
Against you, you alone, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment.
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I expected it to yield grapes, why did it yield rotten grapes?
And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, “We are free; we will come to you no more”?
Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me and went after worthless things and became worthless themselves?
O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.”
Now we know that, whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.