Micah 1:2 “Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May…”

Micah 1:2

Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Hear, you peoples, all of you! Listen, O earth, and all that is therein. Let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Heare, al ye people: hearke thou, O earth, and all that therein is, and let the Lord God be witnes against you, euen ye Lord from his holy Teple.

Darby Translation

Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple!

Young's Literal Translation

Hear, O peoples, all of them! Attend, O earth, and its fulness, And the Lord Jehovah is against you for a witness, The Lord from His holy temple.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“hearken”

Isaiah 1:2 Jeremiah 22:29 Revelation 2:7 Revelation 3:13 Revelation 3:22 Deuteronomy 32:1

Isaiah 1:2 · BSB

Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

Jeremiah 22:29 · BSB

O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!

Revelation 2:7 · BSB

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.

Revelation 3:13 · BSB

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Revelation 3:22 · BSB

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Deuteronomy 32:1 · BSB

Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

“all that therein is”

Psalm 24:1 Psalm 50:12

Psalm 24:1 · BSB

The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

Psalm 50:12 · BSB

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.

“let”

Psalm 50:7 Malachi 3:5 Jeremiah 29:23 Malachi 2:14

Psalm 50:7 · BSB

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.

Malachi 3:5 · BSB

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their…

Jeremiah 29:23 · BSB

For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the…

Malachi 2:14 · BSB

Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

“the Lord from”

Psalm 11:4 Jonah 2:7 Habakkuk 2:20 Psalm 28:2

Psalm 11:4 · BSB

The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.

Jonah 2:7 · BSB

As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

Habakkuk 2:20 · BSB

But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

Psalm 28:2 · BSB

Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Also

Jeremiah 6:19

Jeremiah 6:19 · BSB

Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:

3For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

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