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“My people, recall how king Balak of Moab deliberated,
    and how Beor’s son Balaam counseled him from Shittim to Gilgal,
        so that you may know the righteousness of the Lord.”

The Nature of True Righteousness

How am I to present myself in the Lord’s presence
    and bow in the presence of the High God?
Should I present myself with burnt offerings,
    with year-old calves?
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
    or with endless[a] rivers of oil?
Am I to give my firstborn to pay for[b] my rebellion,
    the fruit of my body in exchange for[c] my soul?

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:7 Lit. with ten thousand
  2. Micah 6:7 The Heb. lacks to pay for
  3. Micah 6:7 The Heb. lacks in exchange for