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Micah 1:2

Hear ye peoples, all of you, Hearken, O earth and the fulness thereof,—and let My Lord Yahweh be among you for a witness, My Lord out of his holy temple.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 Yahweh which came unto Micah the Morashtite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah,—of which he had vision concerning Samaria, and Jerusalem:—

3For lo! Yahweh, coming forth out of his place,—that he may descend, and march along upon the high places of the earth.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:28Then said Micaiah, If thou, return, in peace, Yahweh hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you!

Psalms 24:1To Yahweh, belongeth, The earth and the fulness thereof, The world, and they who dwell therein;

Psalms 49:1Hear ye, this all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of this passing world;

Psalms 50:1El, Elohim, Yahweh, hath spoken, and culled the earth, From the rising of the sun, unto the going in thereof:

Psalms 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof.

Isaiah 1:2Hear O heavens, And give ear, O earth, for Yahweh, hath spoken:—Sons, have I brought up, and advanced, 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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