Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Micah 6:3
What have I done — What injustice or unkindness? What grievous, burdensome impositions have I laid upon thee. Wearied thee — Speak, what it is hath caused thee to be weary of me?
What have I done — What injustice or unkindness? What grievous, burdensome impositions have I laid upon thee. Wearied thee — Speak, what it is hath caused thee to be weary of me?
Verse Micah 6:3. _O MY PEOPLE, WHAT HAVE I DONE UNTO THEE?_] They are called to show why God should not pronounce sentence upon them. This condescension is truly astonishing! God appears to humble hi...
O MY PEOPLE - This one tender word, twice repeated , contains in one a whole volume of reproof. It sets before the eyes God’s choice of them of His free grace, and the whole history of His loving-kind...
THE THIRD PROPHETIC DISCOURSE (6-7) CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The words of Jehovah to His people (Micah 6:1) _ 2. Israel's answer (Micah 6:6) 3. The moral demands of Jehovah (Micah 6:8) 4. The Lord must jud...
POPULAR_ V._ PROPHETIC RELIGION. The classical summary of prophetic religion in Micah 6:8 is introduced by the figure frequently employed (Hosea 4:1; Hosea 12:2; Isaiah
TESTIFY. answer....
_THE LORD'S CHALLENGE TO HIS PEOPLE -- MICAH 6:1-5:_ God called upon Israel to present any complaints that they might have against Him in the presence of everyone. Micah moved from his prediction of t...
DISCOURSE: 1212 GOD’S CONTROVERSY WITH HIS PEOPLE Micah 6:2. _Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, an...
FORGOTTEN ACTS OF SALVATION. Micah 6:1-8 RV. Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, an...
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. O MY PEOPLE - the greatest aggravation of their sin, that God always treated them, and still treats th...
GOD'S ARRAIGNMENT OF HIS PEOPLE 1-8. Micah's message to the discouraged believers. They have lost heart because of the apparent contradiction between the promises of their prophets and the hard facts...
WEARIED] God's demands are so simple (Micah 6:8)....
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 6 SECTION 3 6:1-7:20 THIRD SERIES OF *PROPHECIES. GOD WILL FORGIVE THE *REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE 6:1-8 MICAH ACCUSES *...
In order to start his defence, the *LORD asks two questions. First, he asks, ‘Have I done anything wrong to you?’ He tries to prove that he has not done anything wrong. The second question is ‘How hav...
עַמִּ֛י מֶה ־עָשִׂ֥יתִי לְךָ֖ וּ מָ֣ה הֶלְאֵת
THE REASONABLENESS OF TRUE RELIGION Micah 6:1 WE have now reached a passage from which all obscurities of date and authorship disappear before the transparence and splendor of its contents. "These fe...
“WHAT DOTH THE LORD REQUIRE OF THEE?” Micah 6:1-16 In Micah 6:1-4 the prophet returns from his vision of the future to the actual condition of his people, which was utterly desperate. The mountains,...
This closing section is dramatic and magnificent. The prophet summoned Israel and the mountains to hear the controversy of Jehovah with His people. The key-word is "Jehovah... will plead." From that p...
I beg the Reader particularly to notice in the very commencement of the Lord's discourse, that the covenant relation between the Lord and his Israel, is kept in remembrance. O my people! do not, I beg...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to Israel, and so far with...
_A BESEECHING GOD_ ‘O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against Me.’ Micah 6:3 The history of God’s dealings with us is a history of benefits on His si...
Here God, in the first place, offers to give a reason, if he was accused of any thing. It seems indeed unbecoming the character of God, that he should be thus ready as one guilty to clear himself: but...
After having thus declared the counsels of God in grace, the Spirit returns to His pleadings with Israel in respect of their moral condition, calling the whole earth as audience to hear His controvers...
O MY PEOPLE,.... These are the words of the Lord himself by the prophet, expressing his strong affection to the people of Israel, of which his goodness to them was a full proof, and this was an aggrav...
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. Ver. 3. _O my people, what have I done unto thee?_] Or rather, what have I not done to do thee good? "O g...
_O my people, what have I done unto thee?_ What injustice or unkindness? _Wherein have I wearied thee?_ What grievous, burdensome impositions have I laid upon thee? Or, what have I done, or said, or e...
O My people, what have I done unto thee? namely, in inflicting any kind of wrong. AND WHEREIN HAVE I WEARIED THEE? by requirements which were too rigorous. TESTIFY AGAINST ME! He was ready to entertai...
A CALL TO REPENTANCE...
1-5 The people are called upon to declare why they were weary of God's worship, and prone to idolatry. Sin causes the controversy between God and man. God reasons with us, to teach us to reason with o...
O, MY PEOPLE; you whole house of Israel, my people chosen in Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, multiplied in Egypt, and by many miracles owned, redeemed, and carried through the wilderness, and settled in th...
Micah 6:3 people H5971 done H6213 (H8804) wearied H3811 (H8689) Testify H6030 (H8798) O my -...
MICAH NOW CALLS ON CREATION TO WITNESS YHWH'S CASE AGAINST ISRAEL, AND FINISHES BY STATING YHWH'S REQUIREMENTS. (MICAH 6:1) Knowing that the people might be puzzled as to why YHWH should treat His peo...
Micah 6:1. _Hear ye now what the LORD saith;_ And yet some doubt the infallible inspiration of Scripture. I would commence every reading of the Scripture with such a word of admonition as this: «Hear...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel's past and present. CHARACTERS: God, Omri, Ahab, Balak, Balaam. CONCLUSION: God issues a challenge to all who have ever professed belief in Him, but have w...
Micah 6:5. _Oh my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted._ He went to Balaam the false prophet for advice; and both he and his people, and the prophet perished together. Had he hearken...
_Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice _ GOD’S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL In this text we have God offering to plead before the sinner. The parties, who are they? O...
MICAH 6:1 The Lord’s Indictment and Restoration of His People. The Lord’s indictment against his people is delivered (Micah 6:1), and the crisis within the covenantal relationship is described ...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 6:3 MY PEOPLE. The Lord presents his case. He reminds Israel of its covenantal relationship with him. ANSWER ME! challenges the Israelites to prove their charge that the Lord has w...
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 6:3. WHAT] opens the suit. Israel, tired with the _dealings_ of God, had backslided from him. WEARIED] By demanding what is irksome (Isaiah 43:23; 1 John 5:3); or failing to per...
EXPOSITION VERSE 6:1-7:20 Part III. In this address, which is later than the preceding parts, the prophet sets forth the way of salvation: PUNISHMENT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF SIN; REPENTANCE IS THE ONLY...
Hear ye now what the LORD says; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for th...
Isaiah 43:22; Isaiah 43:23; Jeremiah 2:31; Jeremiah 2:5; Micah 6:5;...