Micah 6:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

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  • Hos 4:1 : 1 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
  • Hos 12:2 : 2 Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
  • 2 Sam 22:16 : 16 Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.
  • Ps 104:5 : 5 He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:
  • Deut 32:22 : 22 For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.
  • 2 Sam 22:8 : 8 Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.
  • Isa 5:3 : 3 And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
  • Isa 43:26 : 26 Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.
  • Jer 2:9 : 9 For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.
  • Jer 2:29-35 : 29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord. 30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion. 31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again? 32 Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days. 33 With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways. 34 And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ... 35 And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.
  • Jer 25:31 : 31 A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord.
  • Jer 31:37 : 37 This is what the Lord has said: If the heavens on high may be measured, and the bases of the earth searched out, then I will give up the seed of Israel, because of all they have done, says the Lord.
  • Ezek 20:35-36 : 35 And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face. 36 As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.

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    91%

    1 Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.

  • Mic 6:3
    77%

    3 O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

  • Hos 4:1
    77%

    1 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

  • Ezek 36:1
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    1 And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord:

  • Mic 1:2-5
    4 verses
    76%

    2 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.

    3 For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.

    4 And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.

    5 All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

  • Ezek 6:1-3
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    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, let your face be turned to the mountains of Israel, and be a prophet to them, and say,

    3 You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and the hills, to the waterways and the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on you a sword for the destruction of your high places.

  • Jer 25:30-31
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    30 So, as a prophet, give out these words among them, and say to them, The voice of the Lord will be sounding like a lion from on high; he will send out his voice from his holy place, like the loud voice of a lion, against his flock; he will give a cry, like those who are crushing the grapes, against all the people of the earth.

    31 A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord.

  • Hos 12:2
    74%

    2 Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.

  • Isa 1:2
    73%

    2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

  • Isa 3:13
    73%

    13 The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.

  • Jer 10:1
    73%

    1 Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel:

  • Ezek 36:4
    73%

    4 For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:

  • Isa 34:1
    73%

    1 Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it.

  • Ps 114:6
    73%

    6 You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?

  • Zech 12:1
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    1 The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

  • Jer 2:4
    73%

    4 Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:

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    72%

    29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

  • Jer 2:9
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    9 For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

  • Ezek 36:6
    72%

    6 For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations:

  • Jer 6:18
    72%

    18 So then, give ear, you nations, and ...

  • Isa 5:7
    72%

    7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

  • Hos 5:1
    72%

    1 Give ear to this, O priests; give attention, O Israel, and you, family of the king; for you are to be judged; you have been a deceit at Mizpah and a net stretched out on Tabor.

  • Amos 5:1
    72%

    1 Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.

  • Amos 3:13
    72%

    13 Give ear now, and give witness against the family of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of armies;

  • Jer 30:4
    71%

    4 And these are the words which the Lord said about Israel and about Judah.

  • Ps 50:7
    71%

    7 Give ear, O my people, to my words; O Israel, I will be a witness against you; I am God, even your God.

  • Jer 11:6
    71%

    6 And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.

  • Judg 5:5
    71%

    5 The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Ps 81:8
    71%

    8 Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!

  • Jer 18:19
    71%

    19 Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.

  • Mal 2:17
    71%

    17 You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

  • Isa 1:10
    70%

    10 Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

  • Mic 3:12
    70%

    12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • Ps 18:7
    70%

    7 Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

  • Jer 21:13
    70%

    13 See, I am against you, you who are living on the rock of the valley, says the Lord; you who say, Who will come down against us? or who will get into our houses?

  • Amos 4:12-13
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    70%

    12 So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.

    13 For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.

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    70%

    5 The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

  • Jer 13:15
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    15 Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.

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    70%

    17 Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;

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    29 O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!

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    1 Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

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    6 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.

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    16 Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.