Micah 1:2

Listen, all you peoples! Pay attention, all you inhabitants of the earth! For the Lord God will be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple!

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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

1The Lord’s message which came to Micah of Morsheth in the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. The visions he saw about Samaria and Jerusalem.

3The Lord is coming from his holy place, he descends and treads on the heights of the earth,

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Cross References

Psalms 24:1The earth is the Lord’s and all that it holds, the world and those who live in it.

Psalms 49:1Hear this, you peoples all; attend, all you who live in the world

Psalms 50:1The Lord God has spoken: He summons the earth from sunrise to sunset.

Psalms 50:12Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine.

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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