Micah 1:4

And the mountains shall be shaken under him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a declivity.

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In The King James Version

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

In Context

3For, behold, the Lord comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and will go upon the high places of the earth.

5All these calamities are for the transgression of Jacob, and for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what is the sin of the house of Judah? is it not Jerusalem?

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Cross References

Judges 5:4O Lord, in thy going forth on Seir, 1 When thou wentest forth out of the land of Edom, 1 The earth quaked and the heaven dropped dews, 1 And the clouds dropped water. 1

Psalms 97:5Sing to the Lord with a harp, 1 With a harp, and the voice of a psalm. 1

Amos 9:5And the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, is he that takes hold of the land, and causes it to shake, and all that inhabit it shall mourn; and its destruction shall go up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.

Habakkuk 3:6The earth stood at his feet and trembled: 1 He beheld, and the nations melted away: 1 The mountains were violently burst through, 1 The everlasting hills melted at his everlasting going forth. 1

Zechariah 14:4And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it toward the east and the west, a very great division; and half the mountain shall lean to the north, and half of it to the south.

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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