Micah 6:2
But then you mountains must also listen carefully [DOU] to what I, Yahweh, am complaining about my people. I have something to say about what [DOU] my Israeli people are doing that displeases me.
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Deuteronomy 32:22I will be very angry, and I will destroy them like a fire that will burn on the earth and all the way down to the place where dead people are [MET]; that fire will destroy the earth and everything that grows on it, and it will even burn what is down under the mountains.
2 Samuel 22:16Then the bottom of the ocean was uncovered; the foundations of the world could be seen when you rebuked your enemies with a snort from your nostrils.
Proverbs 8:29I was there when he fixed a boundary for the seas, so that the water in the seas would not go past those boundaries, and when he put down the foundations which support the earth.
Isaiah 3:13It is as though Yahweh has sat in his place in a courtroom and is ready to judge his people.
Isaiah 43:26Tell me what I have done that you do not like. Do you think that when you state your case, you will prove that you ◄are innocent/have done nothing wrong► [IRO]?
Jeremiah 2:29You complain that it was wrong for me not to have rescued you, but you have all rebelled against me.
Matthew Henry on Micah 6:2-6
God's Expostulations with His People. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Hear ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord 's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. 3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. 4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of… Read the whole commentary →