And ye strong foundations of the earth— And ye valleys in the lower parts of the earth. Houbigant. Schultens has it, Ye abiding,—or everlasting foundations, &c. And instead of testify against me, Micah 6:3. Houbigant reads answer me.
Verse Micah 6:2. _HEAR YE, O MOUNTAINS_] Micah, as God's advocate, summons this people into judgment, and makes an appeal to inanimate creation against them. He had spoken to the priests, to the prin...
HEAR, YE STRONG (OR, IT MAY BE, YE ENDURING,) FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH - Mountains and rocks carry the soul to times far away, before and after. They change net, like the habitable, cultivated, surfac...
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
HEAR YE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:1). App-92....
_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...
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. HEAR YE, O MOUNTAINS, THE LORD'...
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...
STRONG] RV 'enduring.' The mountains have outlived so many generations of disobedience and unwearied mercy: cp. Isaiah 1:2....
Here there is a change in the subject that Micah is writing about. Micah leaves the message about the future (which was in Chapter s 4-5). He returns to *Israel’s present troubles. Verses 1 and 2 are...
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 *...
שִׁמְע֤וּ הָרִים֙ אֶת ־רִ֣יב יְהוָ֔ה וְ הָ
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...
This seems a new Sermon of the Prophet's, opening at this Chapter. The stile is as usual in the prophetic way. Not only the people are called upon, but the inanimate part of the creation, to be witnes...
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...
_Hear, ye mountains, the controversy of Jehovah, _(161) how? _and ye strong foundations of the earth, _he says. He speaks here no more of hills, but summons the whole world; as though he said, “There...
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...
HEAR YE, O MOUNTAINS, THE LORD'S CONTROVERSY, AND YE STRONG FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH,.... These are the words of the prophet, obeying the divine command, calling upon the mountains, which are the stro...
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. Ver. 2. Hear ye, O mountains, the...
_Hear now what the Lord saith_ Here begins a new discourse, respecting the causes of the evils which hung over the Jewish nation. _Arise_ This is God's command to Micah; _contend thou before the mount...
Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, Jehovah's cause, which He wanted to have decided in the present suit, AND YE STRONG FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH, literally, "ye immovable bases of the earth,...
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...
HEAR YE, O MOUNTAINS: in the first verse God directs Micah to take the mountains and hills for witnesses; now in this verse he doth call upon those mountains to hear: it is a prosopoeia, an elegant pe...
Micah 6:2 Hear H8085 (H8798) mountains H2022 LORDS H3068 complaint H7379 strong H386 foundations H4146 earth H776 LORD...
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 ...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The _third_ division now begins, after declaration of judgment and salvation which awaits the future remnant. HEAR] Plead with God in controversy. MTS.] Witness and murmur with the ec...
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...
2 Samuel 22:16; 2 Samuel 22:8; Deuteronomy 32:22; Ezekiel 20:35;...
Foundations of the earth — The mountains properly so called; the sin of Israel is so notorious, that the whole creation may be summoned as a witness against them....