Micah 6:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Hear, O mountains, the LORD'S dispute, and you strong foundations of the earth, for the LORD has a dispute with His people, and He will plead with Israel.

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  • Hos 4:1 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
  • Hos 12:2 : 2 The LORD also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds will He recompense him.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • 2 Sam 22:16 : 16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were uncovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
  • Ps 104:5 : 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not go beyond his command; when he appointed the foundations of the earth,
  • Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
  • 2 Sam 22:8 : 8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was angry.
  • Isa 5:3 : 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.
  • Isa 43:26 : 26 Put Me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare so that you may be justified.
  • Jer 2:9 : 9 Therefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
  • Jer 2:29-35 : 29 Why will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD. 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 31 O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more to you? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. 33 Why do you beautify your way to seek love? therefore you have also taught the wicked ones your ways. 34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. 35 Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
  • Jer 25:31 : 31 A noise shall come to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations, He will plead with all flesh; He will give those who are wicked to the sword, says the LORD.
  • Jer 31:37 : 37 Thus says the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the descendants of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD.
  • Ezek 20:35-36 : 35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 36 As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, says the Lord GOD.

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  • 1Hear now what the LORD says; Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

  • 3O my people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.

  • 1Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

  • 1Also, you son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:

  • Mic 1:2-5
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    2Hear, all you people; listen, O earth, and all that is within it: and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

    3For behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.

    4And the mountains will be molten under him, and the valleys will be split, as wax before the fire, and as waters that are poured down a steep place.

    5All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression 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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    1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

    3And say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

  • Jer 25:30-31
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    30Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and say to them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy habitation; He shall mightily roar upon His dwelling place; He shall give a shout, as those who tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

    31A noise shall come to the ends of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with the nations, He will plead with all flesh; He will give those who are wicked to the sword, says the LORD.

  • 2The LORD also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds will He recompense him.

  • 2Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

  • 13The LORD stands up to plead and stands to judge the people.

  • 1Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel:

  • 4Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and mockery to the rest of the nations that are all around;

  • 1Come near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O people: let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come forth from it.

  • 6O mountains, that you skipped like rams; and O little hills, like lambs?

  • 1The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.

  • 4Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

  • 29Why will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD.

  • 9Therefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

  • 6Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations:

  • 18Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

  • 7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

  • 1Listen to this, O priests; and pay attention, O house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

  • 1Hear this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

  • 13Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob, says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

  • 4And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah.

  • 7Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.

  • 6Then the LORD said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

  • 5The mountains melted before the LORD, even that Sinai, before the LORD God of Israel.

  • 8Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you; O Israel, if you will listen to me;

  • 19Give heed to me, O LORD, and listen to the voice of those who contend with me.

  • 17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

  • 10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

  • 12Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • 7Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry.

  • 13Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley and rock of the plain, says the LORD; who say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our dwellings?

  • Amos 4:12-13
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    12Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.

    13For behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

  • 5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yes, the world and all who dwell in it.

  • 15Hear, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD has spoken.

  • 17Then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who serve in that time;

  • 29O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

  • 1Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

  • 6For thus has the LORD of hosts said, Cut down trees, and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited; she is full of oppression in her midst.

  • 16The LORD also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake. But the LORD will be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel.