Micah 6:9

The LORD’s voice calls to the city— and wisdom fears your name— “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

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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 shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

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Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

Job 5:6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

Job 10:2I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

Psalms 9:16The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgement. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

Psalms 83:18that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.

Proverbs 22:3A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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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