Micah 1:2

Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

In Context

1This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:

3For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:28But Micaiah replied, “If you ever return safely, the LORD has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take heed, all you people!”

Psalms 24:1The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

Psalms 49:1Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,

Psalms 50:1The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.

Psalms 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.

Isaiah 1:2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

Matthew Henry on Micah 1:2-8

Micah We shall have some account of this prophet in the first verse of the book of his prophecy; and therefore shall here only observe that, being contemporary with the prophet Isaiah (only that he began to prophesy a little after him), there is a near resemblance between that prophet's prophecy and this; and there is a prediction of the advancement and establishment of the gospel-church, which both of them have, almost in the same words, that out of the mouth of two such witnesses so great a word might be… Read the whole commentary →

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