Micah 1:3

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

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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

2Listen, 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!

4so that the mountains melt beneath like wax in the presence of the fire, and the valleys break apart like water poured down a steep descent.

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Cross References

Hosea 5:14For I myself will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, yes I, will rend and go my way, I will carry off and none will rescue.

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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