Micah 6:9

The voice of Yahweh is making a proclamation to the city— 1 even now wisdom acknowledges your name: 1 “Pay attention to the rod, 1 and to the one who has put it in place. + 6:9 Instead of the Hebrew text's reading of Pay attention to the rod and to the one who has put it into place , some modern versions have Listen, tribe, and those assembled together in the city . 1

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In The King James Version

The LORD’S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

In Context

8He has told you, man, 1 what is good, 1 and what Yahweh requires from you: 1 Act justly, 1 love kindness, 1 and walk humbly with your God. 1

10There is wealth in the houses of the wicked that is dishonest, 1 and false measures that are abominable. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1There was a famine in David's time for three years in a row, and David sought the face of Yahweh. So Yahweh said, “This famine is on you because of Saul and his murderous family, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

Job 5:6For difficulties do not come out from the soil; 1 neither does trouble sprout from the ground. 1

Job 10:2I will say to God, 'Do not merely condemn me; 1 show me why you accuse me. 1

Psalms 9:16Yahweh has made himself known; he has executed judgment; 1 the wicked is ensnared by his own actions. Selah 1

Psalms 83:18Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh, 1 are the Most High over all the earth.

Proverbs 22:3A prudent man sees trouble and hides himself, 1 but the naive go on and suffer because of it. 1

Matthew Henry on Micah 6:7-9

Anxiety Respecting the Divine Favour. ( b. c. 710.) 6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord , and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to… Read the whole commentary →

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