Micah 6:1
Hearken ye nowe what the Lord sayth, Arise thou, and contende before the mountaines, and let the hilles heare thy voyce.
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Deuteronomy 32:1Hearken, ye heauens, and I will speake: and let the earth heare the words of my mouth.
Psalms 50:1A Psalme of Asaph. The God of Gods, euen the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the going downe thereof.
Isaiah 1:2Heare, O heauens, and hearken, O earth: for the Lord hath sayde, I haue nourished and brought vp children, but they haue rebelled against me.
Isaiah 3:13The Lord standeth vp to pleade, yea, hee standeth to iudge the people.
Jeremiah 22:29O earth, earth, earth, heare the worde of the Lord.
Ezekiel 36:1Also thou sonne of man, prophesie vnto the mountaines of Israel, and say, Ye mountaines of Israel, heare the word of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Micah 6:1
After the precious promises in the two foregoing chapters, relating to the Messiah's kingdom, the prophet is here directed to set the sins of Israel in order before them, for their conviction and humiliation, as necessary to make way for the comfort of gospel-grace. Christ's forerunner was a reprover, and preached repentance, and so prepared his way. Here, I. God enters an action against his people for their base ingratitude, and the bad returns they had made him for his favours, ver. 1-5 . II. He shows the wrong… Read the whole commentary →