Micah 6:1

CHAPTER VI

This chapter reproves and threatens. The manner of raising the

attention by calling on man to urge his plea in the face of all

nature, and on the inanimate creation to hear the expostulation

of Jehovah with his people, is awakening and sublime. The words

of Jehovah follow, 3-5.

And God's mercies having been set forth to his people, one of

them is introduced, in a beautiful dramatic form, asking what

his duty is towards a God so gracious, 6, 7.

The answer follows in the words of the prophet, 8;

who goes on to upbraid the people of his charge with their

injustice and idolatry, to which he ascribes want of success in

their lawful undertakings, and those heave calamities which are

now impending, 9-15.

NOTES ON CHAP. VI

Verse Micah 6:1. Arise, contend thou] This chapter is a sort of dialogue between God and the people. GOD speaks the five first verses, and convicts the people of sin, righteousness, and judgment. The PEOPLE, convinced of their iniquity, deprecate God's judgments, in the sixth and seventh verses. In the eighth verse God prescribes the way in which they are to be saved; and then the prophet, by the command of God, goes on to remonstrate from the ninth verse to the end of the chapter.