Micah 1:3

For, hinei, Hashem cometh forth out of His dwelling place, 1 and will come down, and tread upon the high places of ha'aretz. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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, all ye peoples; 1 hearken, O Eretz (earth), and all that is therein; 1 and let Adonoi Hashem be witness against you, 1 Adonoi from His Heikhal Kodesh. 1

4And the mountains shall melt under Him, 1 and the valleys shall be split apart, 1 like wax before the eish, 1 and like mayim that are poured down a steep place. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:13He made him ride on the high places of Eretz, 1 that he might eat the tenuvot sadeh (increase of the fields); 1 and He made to suckle him devash out of the rock, 1 and shemen out of the flinty rock; 1

Job 40:12Look on every one that is proud, and humble him, 1 and tread down the resha'im in their place. 1

Isaiah 2:10Enter into the Tzur, 1 and hide thee in the aphar, 1 for pachad Hashem, 1 and for the hadar of His majesty. 1

Isaiah 26:21For, hinei, Hashem goeth forth from His Makom (place, home) 1 to punish the avon (iniquity) of inhabitants of ha'aretz; 1 ha'aretz also shall disclose her dahm, 1 and shall no more cover over her slain.

Isaiah 64:1As eish burneth brushwood, 1 eish causeth the mayim to boil, 1 [O, that Thou wouldst come down] to make Thy Shem known to Thine adversaries, 1 that the Goyim might tremble at Thy presence! 1

Hosea 5:14For I will be unto Ephrayim like a lion, 1 and as a great lion to the Bais Yehudah; 1 I, even I, will tear and go away; 1 I will carry off, and there will be no one rescuing. 1

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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