Micah 1:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 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 the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Ps 11:4 : 4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
• Ps 49:1-2 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)}, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear{H8798)} this, all ye people; give ear{H8685)}, all ye inhabitants{H8802)} of the world: 2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
• Ps 50:7 : 7 Hear{H8798)}, O my people, and I will speak{H8762)}; O Israel, and I will testify{H8686)} against 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 false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Jonah 2:7 : 7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
• Mic 6:1-2 : 1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
• Hab 2:20 : 20 But the LORD 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 the LORD.
• Jer 29:23 : 23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
• Deut 32:1 : 1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
• Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
• Mark 7:14-15 : 14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
• Rev 2:7 : 7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
• Rev 2:11 : 11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto 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 unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
• Rev 2:29 : 29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
• Rev 3:6 : 6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
• Rev 3:13 : 13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
• Rev 3:22 : 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
• Ps 50:12 : 12 If I were hungry{H8799)}, I would not tell{H8799)} 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, nor to my law, but rejected it.
• Ps 50:1 : 1 A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken{H8765)}, and called{H8799)} the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
• Ps 24:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'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.