Micah 6:7

6:7 Will the Lord accept a thousand rams,

or ten thousand streams of olive oil?

Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion,

my offspring – my own flesh and blood – for my sin?

Micah 7:2

7:2 Faithful men have disappeared from the land;

there are no godly men left.

They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood;

they hunt their own brother with a net.


tn Heb “the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is often translated “soul,” but the word usually refers to the whole person; here “the sin of my soul” = “my sin.”

tn Or “have perished”; “have been destroyed.”

tn Heb “and an upright one among men there is not.”

tn Heb “for bloodshed” (so NASB); TEV “for a chance to commit murder.”

sn Micah compares these ungodly people to hunters trying to capture their prey with a net.