Micah 6:1

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The Lord Demands Justice, not Ritual Listen to what the LORD says:“Get up! Defend yourself before the mountains! Present your case before the hills!”

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:1 : 1 Invocation of Witnesses Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
  • Jer 22:29 : 29 O land of Judah, land of Judah, land of Judah! Listen to the LORD’s message!
  • Mic 1:2 : 2 The Judge is Coming Listen, all you nations! Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth! The Sovereign LORD will act as a witness against you; the Lord will accuse you from his majestic palace.
  • Ezek 36:1 : 1 Blessings on the Mountains of Israel“As for you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say:‘O mountains of Israel, listen to the LORD’s message!
  • Ps 50:1 : 1 A psalm by Asaph. El, God, the LORD has spoken, and summoned the earth to come from the east and west.
  • Ps 50:4 : 4 He summons the heavens above, as well as the earth, so that he might judge his people.
  • 1 Sam 15:16 : 16 Then Samuel said to Saul,“Wait a minute! Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” Saul said to him,“Tell me.”
  • Ezek 36:8 : 8 “‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon.
  • Ezek 37:4 : 4 Then he said to me,“Prophesy over these bones, and tell them:‘Dry bones, listen to the LORD’s message.
  • Mic 1:4 : 4 The mountains will crumble beneath him; and the valleys will split apart, like wax before a fire, like water dumped down a steep slope.
  • Luke 19:40 : 40 He answered,“I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!”
  • Isa 2:12-14 : 12 Indeed, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud– they will be humiliated; 13 for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are so high and mighty, for all the oaks of Bashan; 14 for all the tall mountains, for all the high hills,
  • Jer 13:15 : 15 Then I said to the people of Judah,“Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the LORD has spoken.
  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.
  • Heb 3:7-8 : 7 Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! 8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
  • Amos 3:1 : 1 Every Effect has its Cause Listen, you Israelites, to this message which the LORD is proclaiming against you! This message is for the entire clan I brought up from the land of Egypt:
  • Isa 1:2 : 2 Obedience, not Sacrifice Listen, O heavens, pay attention, O earth! For the LORD speaks:“I raised children, I brought them up, but they have rebelled against me!

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