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Micah 1:2
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Listen, all you peoples;pay attention, earth and everyone in it!The Lord God will be a witness against you,the Lord, from his holy temple.
Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O eretz, and all that is therein: And let the Lord GOD be witness against you, The Lord from his holy temple.
Heare all ye people, hearken O earth, and all that therein is, and let the Lord God be witnesse against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Hear, you peoples, all of you; Listen carefully, earth and all it contains, And may the Lord GOD be a witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple.
Hear this, all you nations; listen, earth and all you who live on it. The Lord God will be a witness against you, the Lord from his Holy Temple.
Hear, O peoples, all of you; Listen closely, O earth and all that is in it, And let the Lord GOD be witness [giving a testimony of the judgment] against you, The Lord from His holy temple [in the heavens].
Heare, al ye people: hearke thou, O earth, & all that therein is, & let the Lord God be witnes against you, euen ye Lord from his holy Teple.
Hear, O peoples, all of you; Listen, O earth and all it contains, And let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple.
Hear, O peoples, all of you;Give heed, O earth, as well as its fullness,And let Lord Yahweh be a witness against you,The Lord from His holy temple.
Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! The Lord GOD will witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
Listen, all of you! Earth and everything on it, pay close attention. The Lord God accuses you from his holy temple.
Listen, peoples, all of you! Pay attention, earth, and everything in it! Adonai Elohim will witness against you, Adonai, from his holy temple.
Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple!
Listen, all you people! Earth and everyone on it, listen! The Lord God will be a witness against you. The Lord will come from his holy temple.
Hear, all you people; hearken, O earth and all that is in it; and let the LORD God be a witness among you, even the LORD from his holy temple.
Hear this, all you nations; listen to this, all who live on earth! The Sovereign Lord will testify against you. Listen! He speaks from his heavenly temple.
Hear, all you peoples; give heed, O earth and its fullness. And let the Lord Yahweh be against you as a witness, the Lord from his holy temple.
Let the peoples hear, all of them. Pay attention, O earth, and its fullness. And let the Lord Jehovah be a witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Give ear, you peoples, all of you; give attention, O earth and everything in it: let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy Temple.
Hear, ye peoples, all of you; Hearken, O earth, and all that therein is; and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
Heare all ye people, marke this well O earth and all that therein is: yea let the Lorde God him selfe be witnesse against you, [euen] the Lorde from his holy temple.
Hear these words, ye people; and let the earth give heed, and all that are in it: and the Lord God shall be among you for a testimony, the Lord out of his holy habitation.
Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: And let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, The Lord from his holy temple.
Here ye, alle puplis, and the erthe perseyue, and plentee therof, and be the Lord God to you in to a witnesse, the Lord fro his hooli temple.
Hear, you peoples, all of you: listen, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Listen, all you nations! Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth! The sovereign Lord will testify against you; the Lord will accuse you from his majestic palace.
Hear, all you peoples! Listen, O earth, and all that is in it! Let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple.
Attention! Let all the people of the world listen! Let the earth and everything in it hear. The Sovereign Lord is making accusations against you; the Lord speaks from his holy Temple.
Hear, O people, all of you. Listen, O earth and all who are in it. The Lord God will speak against you from His holy house.
Hear, you peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and all that is in it; and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Hear ye peoples, all of you, Hearken, O earth and the fulness thereof, - and let My Lord Yahweh be among you for a witness, My Lord out of his holy temple.
Hear, all ye people: and let the earth give ear, and all that is therein: and let the Lord God be a witness to you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Hear, you peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is in it; and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Hear, O peoples, all of them! Attend, O earth, and its fulness, And the Lord Jehovah is against you for a witness, The Lord from His holy temple.
Heare all ye people, marcke this well o earth, and all that therin is: Yee the LORDE God himself be witnesse amonge you, euen ye LORDE from his holy temple.
Listen, people—all of you. Listen, earth, and everyone in it: The Master, God , takes the witness stand against you, the Master from his Holy Temple.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
all ye people: Heb. ye people all of them
hearken: Micah 6:1, Micah 6:2, Deuteronomy 32:1, Psalms 49:1, Psalms 49:2, Psalms 50:1, Isaiah 1:2, Jeremiah 22:29, Mark 7:14-16, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:11, Revelation 2:17, Revelation 2:29, Revelation 3:6, Revelation 3:13, Revelation 3:22
all that therein is: Heb. the fulness thereof, Psalms 24:1, Psalms 50:12
let: Psalms 50:7, Jeremiah 29:23, Malachi 2:14, Malachi 3:5
the Lord from: Psalms 11:4, Psalms 28:2, Jonah 2:7, Habakkuk 2:20
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:50 - God Deuteronomy 4:26 - I call heaven 1 Samuel 24:15 - be judge 1 Kings 22:28 - Hearken Jeremiah 7:2 - Hear Jeremiah 42:5 - The Lord be Ezekiel 19:7 - the fulness Ezekiel 46:18 - thrust Joel 1:2 - Hear
Cross-References
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord ; and there is none else.
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hear, all ye people,.... Or, "the people, all of them" m; not all the nations of the world, but the nations of Israel, so called from their several tribes; though some n think the rest of the inhabitants of the earth are meant: thee are the same words which are used by Micaiah the prophet in the times of Ahab, long before this time, from whom they might be borrowed, 1 Kings 22:28. The phrase in the Hebrew language, as Aben Ezra observes, is very wonderful, and serves to strike the minds and excite the attention of men; it is like the words of a crier, in a court of judicature, calling for silence:
hearken, O earth, and all that therein is; or, "its fulness" o; the land of Israel and Judah, the whole land of promise, and all the inhabitants of it; for to them are the following words directed:
and let the Lord God be witness against you; or, "in you" p; the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; let him who is the omniscient God, and knows all hearts, thoughts, words, and actions, let him bear witness in your consciences, that what I am about to say is truth, and comes from him; is not my own word, but his; and if you disregard it, and repent not, let him be a witness against you, and for me, that I have prophesied in his name; that I have faithfully delivered his message, and warned you of your danger, and reproved you for your sins, and have kept back nothing I have been charged and entrusted with: and now, you are summoned into open court, and at the tribunal of the great God of heaven and earth; let him be a witness against you of the many sins you have been guilty of, and attend while the indictment is read, the charge exhibited, and the proof given by
the Lord from his holy temple, from heaven, the habitation of his holiness; whose voice speaking from thence should be hearkened to; who from thence beholds all the actions of men, and from whence his wrath is revealed against their sins, and he gives visible tokens of his displeasure; and especially when he seems to come forth from thence in some remarkable instances of his power and providence, as follows:
m עמים כלם "populi omnes ipsi", Montanus, Drusius, Piscator, Tarnovius. n So Burkius. o ומלאה "et plenitude ejus", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Cocceius, Burkius. p בכם "in vobis", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hear, all ye people - Literally, “hear, ye peoples, all of them.” Some 140, or 150 years had flowed by, since Micaiah, son of Imlah, had closed his prophecy in these words. And now they burst out anew. From age to age the word of God holds its course, ever receiving new fulfillments, never dying out, until the end shall come. The signal fulfillment of the prophecy, to which the former Micalah had called attention in these words, was an earnest of the fulfillment of this present message of God.
Hearken, O earth, and all that therein is - The “peoples” or “nations” are never Judah and Israel only: the earth and the fullness thereof is the well-known title of the whole earth and all its inhabitants. Moses Deuteronomy 32:1, Asaph Psalms 50:7, Isaiah Isaiah 1:2, call heaven and earth as witnesses against God’s people. Jeremiah, Jeremiah 6:19 as Micah here, summons the nations and the earth. The contest between good and evil, sin and holiness, the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan, everwhere, but most chiefly where God’s Presence is nearest, is “a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men” 1 Corinthians 4:9. The nations are witnesses of God against His own people, so that these should not say, that it was for want of faithfulness or justice or power Exodus 32:12; Numbers 14:16; Joshua 7:8-9, but in His righteous judgment, that He cast off whom He had chosen. So shall the Day of Judgment “reveal His righteousness” Romans 2:5. “Hearken, O earth.” The lifeless earth Psalms 114:7; Psalms 97:5 trembles “at the Presence of God,” and so reproaches the dullness of man. By it he summons man to listen with great reverence to the Voice of God.
And let the Lord God be witness against you - Not in words, but in deeds ye shall know, that I speak not of myself but God in me, when, what I declare, He shall by His Presence fulfill. But the nations are appealed to, not merely because the judgments of God on Israel should be made known to them by the prophets. He had not yet spoken of Israel or Judah, whereas he had spoken to the nations; “hear, ye peoples.” It seems then most likely that here too he is speaking to them. Every judgment is an earnest, a forerunner, a part, of the final judgment and an example of its principles. It is but “the last great link in the chain,” which unites God’s dealings in time with eternity. God’s judgments on one imply a judgment on all. His judgments in time imply a Judgment beyond time. Each sinner feels in his own heart response to God’s visible judgments on another. Each sinful nation may read its own doom in the sentence on each other nation.
God judges each according to his own measure of light and grace, accepted or refused. The pagan shall be judged by “the law written in their heart” Romans 2:12-15; the Jew, by the law of Moses and the light of the prophets; Christians, by the law of Christ. “The word,” Christ saith, “that I have spoken, the same shall judge him at the last Day” John 12:48. God Himself foretold, that the pagan should know the ground of His judgments against His people. “All nations shall say, wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers which He made with them, when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, ...” Deuteronomy 29:24-25. But in that the pagan knew why God so punished His people, they came so far to know the mind of God; and God, who at no time “left Himself without witness” Acts 14:17, bore fresh “witness” to them, and, so far us they neglected it, against them. A Jew, wherever he is seen throughout the world, is a witness to the world of God’s judgments against sin.
Dionysius: “Christ, the faithful Witness, shall witness against those who do ill, for those who do well.”
The Lord from His holy temple - Either that at Jerusalem, where God shewed and revealed Himself, or Heaven of which it was the image. As David says, “The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven” Psalms 11:4; and contrasts His dwelling in heaven and His coming down upon earth. “He bowed the heavens also and came down” Psalms 18:9; and Isaiah, in like words, “Behold, the Lord cometh out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity” Isaiah 26:21.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Micah 1:2. Hear, all ye people — The very commencement of this prophecy supposes preceding exhortations and predictions.
Hearken, O earth — ארץ arets, here, should be translated land, the country of the Hebrews being only intended.
And let the Lord God be Witness — Let him who has sent me with this message be witness that I have delivered it faithfully; and be a witness against you, if you take not the warning.
The Lord from his holy temple. — The place where he still remains as your King, and your Judge; and where you profess to pay your devotions. The temple was yet standing, for Jerusalem was not taken for many years after this; and these prophecies were delivered before the captivity of the ten tribes, as Micah appears to have been sent both to Israel and to Judah. See Micah 1:5-9; Micah 1:12-13.
