Micah 1:4

Then shall the mountains be melted beneath him, and, the valleys, be cleft,—as wax before the fire, as waters poured out in a steep place.

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In The King James Version

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

In Context

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

5For the transgression of Jacob, is all this, and for the sin of the house of Israel,—Whose is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria’s? And whose is the sin of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

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Cross References

Judges 5:4O Yahweh! When thou didst come forth out of Seir, When thou didst march along out of the field of Edom, Earth, trembled, Heaven also, poured forth,—Yea, dark clouds, poured forth waters;

Psalms 97:5The mountains, like wax, have melted, At the presence of Yahweh, At the presence, of the Lord of all the earth.

Amos 9:5Now, My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, is he—who toucheth the earth, and it melteth, and all that dwell therein, mourn; and it cometh up like the Nile, all of it, and subsideth like the river of Egypt:

Habakkuk 3:6He hath stood and measured the earth, he hath looked, and caused nations to tremble, and, scattered as dust, are the perpetual mountains, and, sunk, are the age-abiding hills,—Forthgoings age-abiding, are his.

Zechariah 14:4Yea his feet, shall stand, in that day, on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives, shall cleave asunder, from the midst thereof, towards the east and towards the west, an exceeding great valley,—and half of the mountain, shall give way, toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

Revelation 20:11And I saw a great white throne, and him that was sitting thereon, from whose face fled the earth and heaven, and, place, was not found for them.

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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