7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriads of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does Yahweh ask from you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
9 The voice of Yahweh calls to the city (it is sound judgment to fear your name): “Hear, O staff! Now who has appointed it?
10 Is there any longer a man in the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity which is accursed?
11 Shall I regard as pure the one with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
12 Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13 And I also have made you sick by striking you down, making you desolate because of your sins.