Micah 6:2
Hear, O ye mountains, the LORD’S controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
3O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest pit, And devoureth the earth with her increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
2 Samuel 22:16Then the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare, by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
Proverbs 8:29When he gave to the sea its bound, that the waters should not transgress his commandment: when he marked out the foundations of the earth:
Isaiah 3:13The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples.
Isaiah 43:26Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth thy cause, that thou mayest be justified.
Jeremiah 2:29Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
Matthew Henry on Micah 6:2-6
God's Expostulations with His People. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Hear ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord 's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. 3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. 4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of… Read the whole commentary →