Micah 6:14-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴You will eat,
    but still be hungry;
you will store up goods,
    but lose everything—
I, the Lord, will let it all
    be captured in war.
¹⁵You won't harvest what you plant
or use the oil
    from your olive trees
or drink the wine
    from grapes you grow.

¹⁶^(A) Jerusalem, this will happen
    because you followed
the sinful example
    of kings Omri and Ahab.^[a]
Now I will destroy you
    and your property.
Then the people of every nation
    will make fun and insult you.

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Footnotes

6.16 Omri and Ahab: King Ahab was the son of Omri and the husband of the evil Jezebel. Almost two centuries before Micah, the prophet Elijah had spoken against the idolatry and the other sinful practices that Ahab had encouraged in Israel (see 1 Kings 16.21-34; 18.1-18; 21.1-26).