Through My Bible Yr 01 – January 12

    Get up. Plead your case to the mountains.
    Let the hills hear your voice.
² Listen, you mountains, to the accusation from the Lord.
    Pay attention, you enduring foundations of the earth,
    because the Lord is presenting a case against his people,
    and he is indicting Israel.

³ My people, what have I done to you,
    and how have I made you weary? Answer me!
⁴ I was the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
    I redeemed you from the place where you were slaves.
    I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam ahead of you.
⁵ My people, remember what Balak king of Moab planned,
    and how Balaam son of Beor responded to him
    when you were about to travel from Shittim to Gilgal,
    so that you may acknowledge the Lord’s righteous acts.

¹⁰ You wicked house, do you still have ^[1] treasures gained by wickedness
    and dishonest measurements that are cursed?
¹¹ Can I condone your dishonest scales and your bags full of false weights?
¹² The city’s rich men are full of violence,
    and its inhabitants speak falsehood.
    Their tongues are treachery inside their mouths.
¹³ So I will wound you, ^[2]
    striking you down
    and making you desolate because of your sins.
¹⁴ You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
    Your emptiness ^[3] will remain inside you.
    You will try to store things up,
    but you will not save anything.
    What you save, I will give to the sword.
¹⁵ You will sow, but you will not reap.
    You will press olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil.
    You will trample grapes for juice, but you will not drink the wine.
¹⁶ You have observed the statutes of Omri, ^[4]
    and all the practices of the house of Ahab.
    You have walked in their way of life,
    so I will make you a hideous sight.
    Your inhabitants will be subjected to contempt. ^[5]
    You will bear the shame of my people. ^[6]

    There is no bunch of grapes to eat,
    none of the early figs I crave.
² The faithful ^[7] have been carried off from the land.
    There is no one upright among mankind.
    They all lie in wait for blood.
    Each one hunts his brother with a net.
³ Both hands are skilled at evil.
    The officials ask for bribes,
    and the judges as well.
    The important man says what he wants.
    Together, they plot it out.
⁴ The best of them is like a brier bush,
    the most upright like a hedge of thorns.
    The day for your watchman,
    the day for your punishment has come.
    Now confusion ^[8] has come for them.

⁵ Do not trust a neighbor.
    Do not put confidence in a close friend.
    Watch what comes out of your mouth,
        even when you lie down with the wife you embrace.
⁶ For a son will declare that his father is a fool.
    A daughter will rise up against her mother,
    and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
    A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.