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What does Micah 6:9 mean?

"Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it."

— Micah 6:9 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

6

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?

7

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?

8

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?

9

Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

10

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

11

Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

12

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

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