Micah 1:3

For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his residence; and he will come down, and will step along upon the high places of the earth.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

In Context

2Hear, ye people, altogether; listen, O earth, with all that filleth it: and let the Lord Eternal be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

4And the mountains shall melt beneath him, and the valleys shall cleave in twain, like wax [melteth] before the fire, like water poured out on a declivity.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:13He caused him to stride on the high places of the earth, and he ate the products of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty stone;

Job 40:12Look on every proud one, and bend him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Isaiah 2:10Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, because of the dread of the Lord, and because of the glory of his majesty.

Isaiah 26:21For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth on them: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more be a cover over her slain.

Isaiah 64:1(63:19) Oh that thou mightest rend the heavens, come down: at thy presence would mountains [then] melt away.

Hosea 5:14For I am as a lion unto Ephraim, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I myself will tear in pieces and go away; I will bear away, and none shall deliver.

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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