Micah 1:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁמְעוּ֙ עַמִּ֣ים כֻּלָּ֔ם הַקְשִׁ֖יבִי אֶ֣רֶץ וּמְלֹאָ֑הּ וִיהִי֩ אֲדֹנָ֨י יְהוִ֤ה בָּכֶם֙ לְעֵ֔ד אֲדֹנָ֖י מֵהֵיכַ֥ל קָדְשֽׁוֹ׃

Transliteration

Šimʿû ʿammîm all-of-them haqšîḇî ʾereṣ and-fullness-of-her and-let-be ʾĂḏōnāy YHWH against-you-all for-ʿēḏ ʾĂḏōnāy from-hêḵal qāḏšô

Grammar Details

• *Šimʿû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - hear/listen
• *ʿammîm*: common noun, masculine plural - peoples/nations
• *haqšîḇî*: hifil imperative, feminine singular - pay attention/listen
• *ʾereṣ*: common noun, feminine singular - earth/land
• *ʾĂḏōnāy*: divine title, my-Lord (plural of majesty)
• *YHWH*: divine name, tetragrammaton
• *ʿēḏ*: common noun, masculine singular - witness
• *hêḵal*: common noun, masculine singular - temple/palace
• *qāḏšô*: common noun with possessive suffix, masculine singular - his holiness/his holy [place]

Word Meanings

• *Šimʿû*: hear/listen/obey
• *ʿammîm*: peoples/nations/tribes
• *haqšîḇî*: pay attention/listen/give ear
• *ʾereṣ*: earth/land/ground/territory
• *ʿēḏ*: witness/testimony/evidence
• *hêḵal*: temple/palace/sanctuary

Referenced Verses

• Isa 1:2 : 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Ps 11:4 : 4 Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
• Ps 49:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world, 2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
• Ps 50:7 : 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, [even] thy God.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
• Jonah 2:7 : 7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.
• Mic 6:1-2 : 1 Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
• Hab 2:20 : 20 But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
• Jer 22:29 : 29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Jehovah.
• Jer 29:23 : 23 because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah.
• Deut 32:1 : 1 Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
• Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
• Mark 7:14-15 : 14 And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.
• Rev 2:7 : 7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the {G3319} Paradise of God.
• Rev 2:11 : 11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
• Rev 2:17 : 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but {G3361} he that receiveth it.
• Rev 2:29 : 29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.
• Rev 3:6 : 6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.
• Rev 3:13 : 13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.
• Rev 3:22 : 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.
• Ps 50:12 : 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
• Jer 6:19 : 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
• Ps 50:1 : 1 A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
• Ps 24:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein.
• Ps 28:2 : 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.