7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,with myriad streams of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my crime,the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 You have been told, O mortal, what is good,and what the Lord requires of you:Only to do justice and to love goodness,and to walk humbly with your God.
9 The Lord cries aloud to the city(It is prudent to fear your name!):Hear, O tribe and city assembly,
10 Am I to bear criminal hoardingand the accursed short ephah?
11 Shall I acquit crooked scales,bags of false weights?
12 You whose wealthy are full of violence,whose inhabitants speak falsehoodwith deceitful tongues in their mouths!
13 I have begun to strike youwith devastation because of your sins.