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11     Can I overlook the one who uses crooked scales
        and bags of dishonest weights to cheat the innocent?
12     Her rich are filled with violence, her citizens speak lies,
        and the words of their mouths can never be trusted.
13     That is why I will strike you down with disease,[a]
        destroy you because of your wrongdoing.

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  1. 6:13 Other ancient manuscripts read, “I have begun to strike you down.”

11 Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales,(A)
    with a bag of false weights?(B)
12 Your rich people are violent;(C)
    your inhabitants are liars(D)
    and their tongues speak deceitfully.(E)
13 Therefore, I have begun to destroy(F) you,
    to ruin[a] you because of your sins.

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  1. Micah 6:13 Or Therefore, I will make you ill and destroy you; / I will ruin