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11 Can I be pure with wicked balances?
Or with a bag of deceptive weights?
12 For the rich of the city are full of violence
    and its inhabitants speak lies.
Their tongue in their mouth is deceit.
13 So also I will strike you severely,
desolating you because of your sins.

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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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Footnotes

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