Micah 6:15-16

Contemporary English Version

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).