Micah 1:4

And 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

5Because of the peysha (transgression) of Ya'akov is all this, 1 and because of the chattot Bais Yisroel. 1 What is the peysha of Ya'akov? 1 Is it not Shomron? 1 And what are the high places of Yehudah? 1 Are they not Yerushalayim? 1

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Cross References

Judges 5:4Hashem, when Thou wentest out from Se'ir, 1 when Thou marchedst out of the sadeh Edom, 1 Eretz trembled, 1 HaShomayim poured, 1 clouds also poured down mayim. 1

Psalms 97:5The harim melted like wax at the presence of Hashem, 1 at the presence of Adon kol HaAretz. 1

Amos 9:5And Adonoi Hashem HaTzva'os 1 is He that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, 1 and all that dwell therein shall mourn; 1 and it shall rise up wholly like the Nile; 1 and sink like the Nile of Mitzrayim. 1

Habakkuk 3:6He stood, and measured ha'aretz; 1 He beheld, and made the Goyim tremble; 1 and the everlasting mountains were scattered, 1 the perpetual hills did bow; 1 His ways are olam (everlasting). 1

Zechariah 14:4And in Yom HaHu, His raglayim (feet) + 14:4 See Ac 1:11-12 shall stand upon the Mount of Olives, which is east of Yerushalayim, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a gey gedolah me'od (a very great valley), with half of the mountain moving to the north, and half of it to the south.

Revelation 20:11And I saw a Kisse Lavan Gadol (a Great White Throne) and I saw the One sitting on it, from whose presence Ha'Aretz and Shomayim fled, and no place was found for them.

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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