Micah 6:1

Micah 6:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Hear ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
• New International Version (NIV)Listen to what the Lord says: “Stand up, plead my case before the mountains; let the hills hear what you have to say.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Hear what the Lord says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Hear now what the Lord says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills hear your voice.

Context of Micah 6:1

Hear what Adonai is saying: “Arise! Contend with the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. 2Hear, Adonai ‘s dispute, O mountains— the enduring foundations of the earth. For Adonai has a dispute with His people and He will argue His case with Israel. 3O My people, what have I done to you? Or how have I wearied you? Answer Me!

Micah 6:1 word by word

שִׁמְעוּ־נָ֕א אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָ֖ה אֹמֵ֑ר ק֚וּם רִ֣יב אֶת־הֶהָרִ֔ים וְתִשְׁמַ֥עְנָה הַגְּבָע֖וֹת קוֹלֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Hearשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
• ye now what the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• saithאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• Ariseקוּםqûm · to arise: riseH6965
• contendרִיבrîyb rûb · to contendH7378
• thou before the mountainsהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• and let the hillsגִּבְעָהgib‛âh · hillH1389
• thy voiceקוֹלqôl qôl · voiceH6963

Cross-references for Micah 6:1

• Micah 1:2Hear, O peoples—all of you! Attention, O land and everything in it! Adonai Elohim will be witness against you— The Lord from His holy Temple.
• 1 Samuel 15:16“Stop!” Samuel said to Saul. “Let me tell you what Adonai said to me last night.” “Say on,” he said.
• Jeremiah 13:15Hear and give ear! Do not be haughty! For Adonai has spoken.
• Amos 3:1Hear this word that Adonai has spoken against you, Bnei Yisrael, against the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:
• Hebrews 3:7Therefore, just as the Ruach ha-Kodesh says, “Today if you hear His voice,
• Micah 6:2Hear, Adonai ‘s dispute, O mountains— the enduring foundations of the earth. For Adonai has a dispute with His people and He will argue His case with Israel.
• Micah 6:3O My people, what have I done to you? Or how have I wearied you? Answer Me!
• Micah 6:6With what shall I come before Adonai? With what shall I bow myself before God on high? Shall I present Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
• Micah 6:7Will Adonai be pleased with thousands of rams, with hordes of rivers of oil? Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my belly for the sin of my soul?
• Micah 6:8He has told you, humanity, what is good, and what Adonai is seeking from you: Only to practice justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
• Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will certainly be carried off quickly from the land you are crossing over the Jordan to possess. You will not prolong your days on it, for you will certainly be destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 32:1“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak! Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
• Psalms 50:1A psalm of Asaph. God, Elohim Adonai has spoken and summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
• Isaiah 1:2Listen! Heavens, and hear, earth, for Adonai has spoken: “Sons I have raised and brought up, but they have rebelled against Me.
• Jeremiah 22:29O land, land, land, hear the word of Adonai!
• Ezekiel 36:1“You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai.

Commentaries on Micah 6:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Arise, 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…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Hear ye now what the Lord saith - If ye will not hear the rebuke of man, hear now at last the word of God. “Arise thou, Micah.” The prophet was not willing to be the herald of woe to his people; but had to arise at the bidding of God, that he might not “be rebellious like that rebellious house” Ezekiel 2:8. Stand up; as one having all authority to rebuke, and daunted by none. He muses the hearer, as shewing it to be a very grave urgent matter, to be done…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1God's controversy with Israel. (1-5) The duties God requires. (6-8) The wickedness of Israel. (9-16) Verses 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 ourselves. Let them remember God's many favours to them and their fathers, and compare with them their unworthy, ungrateful conduct toward him.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-2mountains … hills: All creation is called as a witness (see Joshua 24:27). In other ancient Near Eastern treaties, they called the gods of the countries as witnesses.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-161. contend thou--Israel is called by Jehovah to plead with Him in controversy. Mi 5:11-13 suggested the transition from those happy times described in the fourth and fifth chapters, to the prophet's own degenerate times and people. before the mountains--in their presence; personified as if witnesses (compare Mi 1:2; De 32:1; Is 1:2). Not as the Margin, "with"; as God's controversy is with Israel, not with them.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Micah 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings