1Listen now to what the Lord says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

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Jeremiah 22:29, Jeremiah 22:29, Deuteronomy 32:1, Deuteronomy 32:1, Micah 1:2

2Hear, you mountains, the Lord's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

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Hosea 4:1, Hosea 12:2, Hosea 4:1, Hosea 12:2, Isaiah 1:18

3My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

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Jeremiah 2:5, Jeremiah 2:5, Isaiah 43:22, Isaiah 43:23, Isaiah 43:22

4For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

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Exodus 12:51, Deuteronomy 7:8, Exodus 12:51, Deuteronomy 7:8, Amos 2:10

5My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord."

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Numbers 25:1, Joshua 5:9, Joshua 5:10, Numbers 25:1, Joshua 5:9

6How shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

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Psalms 51:16, Psalms 51:17, Romans 10:2, Romans 10:3, Psalms 51:16

7Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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2 Kings 16:3, 2 Kings 16:3, Psalms 51:16, 1 Samuel 15:22, Psalms 51:16

8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the Lord require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 10:13, Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 10:13, Proverbs 21:3

9The Lord's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

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Hosea 14:9, Zephaniah 3:2, Revelation 3:19, Isaiah 30:27, Hosea 14:9

10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

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Amos 3:10, Amos 3:10, Amos 8:5, Amos 8:6, Proverbs 20:10

11Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

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Hosea 12:7, Hosea 12:7, Leviticus 19:36, Leviticus 19:36, Proverbs 16:11

12Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

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Hosea 7:13, Isaiah 1:23, Jeremiah 9:8, Hosea 7:13, Isaiah 1:23

13Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

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Acts 12:23, Leviticus 26:16, Hosea 13:16, Psalms 107:17, Psalms 107:18

14You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

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Hosea 4:10, Hosea 4:10, Leviticus 26:26, Haggai 1:6, Isaiah 65:13

15You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine.

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Zephaniah 1:13, Zephaniah 1:13, Amos 5:11, Amos 5:11, Jeremiah 12:13

16For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."

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Jeremiah 51:51, Jeremiah 51:51, Jeremiah 7:24, 1 Kings 16:25, 1 Kings 16:33