Micah 6:9

A voice of YHWH calls to the city, || And wisdom fears Your Name, || “Hear the rod, and Him who appointed it.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

The LORD’S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

In Context

8He has declared to you, O man, what [is] good; Indeed, what is YHWH requiring of you, || Except—to do judgment, and love kindness, || And to walk lowly with your God?

10Are there yet [in] the house of the wicked || Treasures of wickedness, || And the abhorred meager ephah?

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Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1And there is a famine in the days of David [for] three years, year after year, and David seeks the face of YHWH, and YHWH says, “[This is] for Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put the Gibeonites to death.”

Job 5:6For sorrow does not come forth from the dust, || Nor does misery spring up from the ground.

Job 10:2I say to God, Do not condemn me, || Let me know why You strive [with] me.

Psalms 9:16YHWH has been known, || He has done judgment; By a work of his hands || The wicked has been snared. Meditation. Selah.

Psalms 83:18And they know that You—Your Name [is] YHWH—By Yourself [are] the Most High over all the earth!

Proverbs 22:3The prudent has seen the evil, and is hidden, || And the simple have passed on, and are punished.

Matthew Henry on Micah 6:7-9

Anxiety Respecting the Divine Favour. ( b. c. 710.) 6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord , and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to… Read the whole commentary →

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