have no soothsayers. 005:013 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands. 005:014 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities. 005:015 I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn't listen." 006:001 Listen now to what Yahweh says: "Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say. 006:002 Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel. 006:003 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me! 006:004 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. 006:005 My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh." 006:006 How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 006:007 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 006:008 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? 006:009 Yahweh's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: "Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it. 006:010 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah{An ephah is a measure of volume, and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers.} that is accursed? 006:011 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights? 006:012 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. 006:013 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. 006:014 You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword. 006:015 You will sow, but won't reap. You will tread the olives, but won't anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won't drink the wine. 006:016 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."