1. HEAR NOW what the Lord says: Arise, contend and plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
2. Hear, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, and you strong and enduring foundations of the earth, for the Lord has a controversy (a pleading contention) with His people, and He will [pleadingly] contend with Israel.
3. O My people, what have I done to you? And in what have I wearied you? Testify against Me [answer Me]!
4. For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house where you were bond servants, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.