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Micah 6:1

Hear, I pray you, that which Jehovah is saying: 'Rise — strive thou with the mountains, And cause thou the hills to hear thy voice.'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

In Context

2Hear, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones — foundations of earth! For a strife [is] to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:1'Give ear, O heavens, and I speak; And thou dost hear, O earth, sayings of my mouth!

Psalms 50:1A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods — Jehovah — hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.

Isaiah 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, For Jehovah hath spoken: Sons I have nourished and brought up, And they — they transgressed against Me.

Isaiah 3:13Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples.

Jeremiah 22:29Earth, earth, earth, hear a word of Jehovah,

Ezekiel 36:1And thou, son of man, prophesy unto mountains of Israel, and thou hast said, O mountains of Israel, hear a word of Jehovah.

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 →

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