Micah 1:2

Hear, you peoples, all of you.Listen, O earth, and all that is therein:and let the Lord God be witness against you,the Lord from his holy temple.

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In The King James Version

Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

In Context

1The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

3For, behold, the Lord comes forth out of his place,and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:28Micaiah said, "If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me." He said, "Listen, all you people!"

Psalms 24:1A Psalm by David.The earth is the Lord's, with its fullness;the world, and those who dwell therein.

Psalms 49:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.Hear this, all you peoples.Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

Psalms 50:1A Psalm by Asaph.The Mighty One, God, the Lord, speaks,and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

Psalms 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell you,for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

Isaiah 1:2Hear, heavens,and listen, earth; for the Lord has spoken:I have nourished and brought up children,and they have rebelled against me.

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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