Micah 1:2

The Threat of Punishment

2. all ye people Rather peoples. God's judgment upon the world is now in progress (comp. Isaiah 3:13-14; Isaiah 34:1-5), and one of the principal acts in the great drama is the judgment impending over Israel. Hence all nations are summoned, not merely as legal witnesses (as when -heaven and earth" are called upon in a figure in Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 30:19; Deuteronomy 31:28; Isaiah 1:2), but that they may learn wisdom in time from Israel's fate. Hence the next half of the verse continues, -… against you." The opening words of this verse are uttered by Micaiah in 1 Kings 22:28, which can hardly be an accidental coincidence, as Micah is a shortened form of Micaiah. Probably the words in 1 Kings were interpolated by some ill-advised scribe, who identified Micaiah with our prophet Micah.

the Lord God Rather, the Lord Jehovah. This is the reading of the Hebrew text; A. V. follows the vowel-points, which in this case merely express the exaggerated reverence of the later Jews for the sacred name.

his holy temple It is -the temple of heaven" which is meant (Revelation 16:17). Comp. Habakkuk 2:20; Zechariah 2:13; Isaiah 63:15; Psalms 11:4.