Yehowa hwɛ kwan sɛ wɔn a asɛyɛde hyɛ wɔn nsa wɔ ne nkurɔfo mu no bebu atɛntrenee. Wɔka kyerɛɛ Israel akannifo a na wɔde wɔn tumi di dwuma ɔkwammɔne so no sɛ: “So ɛnyɛ mo na ɛsɛ sɛ muhu atɛntrenee? Mo a motan papa na modɔ bɔne, mugua wɔn were fi wɔn ho, ne wɔn nam fi wɔn nnompe ho.’ Mika ‘de Yehowa honhom mu tumi ne atɛntrenee ne mmaninyɛ’ ka Onyankopɔn atemmusɛm ahorow tia wɔn. Ose akannifo a wɔnteɛ no bu atɛn gye adanmude, na asɔfo gye akatua kyerɛkyerɛ, na adiyifo hyɛ abosonkɔm gye sika. Enti Yerusalem ‘bɛdan abo akuakuw.’​—3:1-12.

○ 3:1-3​—Ɛha na nsonsonoe a ɛyɛ nwonwa wɔ Yehowa, Oguanhwɛfo yamyefo no ne ne tete nkurɔfo akannifo atirimɔdenfo a wɔtraa ase wɔ Mika bere so ntam no. Eyinom antumi anni ahyɛde a wɔde maa wɔn sɛ wɔmmɔ nguan no ho ban denam atɛntrenee a wobebu so no ho dwuma. Ɛnyɛ sɛ wɔnam sɛnkyerɛnne nguan no ho nhwi a wotwitwae no nko so dii wɔn amim atirimɔden so na mmom wɔyɛɛ saa nso denam ‘wɔn ho were a wɔworɔwee’​—te sɛ pataku no so. Nguanhwɛfo atirimɔdenfo no amma nnipa no annya atɛntrenee na ‘wɔma wohwiee mogya gui.’ (3:10) Wɔnam atɛnkyea so gyigyee wɔn a na wonni ahobammɔ no afie ne wɔn asetrade fii wɔn nsam.​—2:2; fa toto Hesekiel 34:1-5 ho.