Miquéas 6:1

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Ouvi, agora, o que diz o SENHOR: Levanta-te, contende com os montes, e ouam os outeiros a tua voz.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Ouvi agora o que diz o SENHOR: Levanta-te, contende com os montes, e ouam os outeiros a tua voz.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Ouvi, agora, o que diz o SENHOR: Levanta-te, defende a tua causa perante os montes, e ouam os outeiros a tua voz.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye: Micah 1:2, 1 Samuel 15:16, Jeremiah 13:15, Amos 3:1, Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 3:8

Arise: The manner of raising attention, says Abp. Newcome, in Micah 6:1, Micah 6:2, by calling a man to urge his plea in the face of all nature, and on the inanimate creation to hear the expostulation of Jehovah with his people, is truly awakening and magnificent. The words of Jehovah follow in Micah 6:3-5, and God's mercies having been set before the people, one of them is introduced in a beautiful manner, asking what his duty is towards so gracious a God, Micah 6:6, Micah 6:7. The answer follows in the words of the prophet, Micah 6:8.

contend: Deuteronomy 4:26, Deuteronomy 32:1, Psalms 50:1, Psalms 50:4, Isaiah 1:2, Jeremiah 22:29, Ezekiel 36:1, Ezekiel 36:8, Luke 19:40

before: or, with, Micah 1:4, Isaiah 2:12-14

let: Ezekiel 37:4

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:35 - in meteyard Deuteronomy 30:19 - I call heaven Psalms 50:7 - Hear Psalms 114:7 - Tremble Isaiah 34:1 - let the Isaiah 34:8 - General Isaiah 41:1 - let us Isaiah 41:21 - Produce Jeremiah 2:4 - Hear ye Ezekiel 6:2 - the mountains Ezekiel 20:35 - and there Matthew 11:20 - upbraid

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear ye now what the Lord saith,.... Here begins a new discourse, and with an address of the prophet to the people of Israel, to hear what the Lord had to say to them by way of reproof for their sins now, as they had heard before many great and precious promises concerning the Messiah, and the happiness of the church in future time; to hear what the Lord now said to them by the prophet, and what he said to the prophet himself, as follows:

arise; O Prophet Micah, and do thine office; sit not still, nor indulge to sloth and ease; show readiness, diligence, activity, zeal, and courage in my service, and in carrying a message from me to my people:

contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice; open the cause depending between me and my people; state the case between us before the mountains and hills; and exert thyself, and lift up thy voice loudly, and with so much vehemence, that, if it was possible, the very mountains and hills might hear thee; the Lord hereby suggests that they would as soon hear as his people; thus upbraiding their stupidity, as he elsewhere does; see Isaiah 1:2. Kimchi and Ben Melech render it, to the mountains, which is much to the same sense with our version; call and summon them as witnesses in this cause; let the pleadings be made before them, and let them be judges in this matter; as they might be both for God, and against his people: the mountains and hills clothed with grass, and covered with flocks and herds; or set with all manner of fruit trees, vines, olives, and figs; or adorned with goodly cedars, oaks, and elms; were witnesses of the goodness of God unto them, and the same could testify against them; and, had they mouths to speak, could declare the abominations committed on them; how upon every high mountain and hill, and under every green tree, they had been guilty of idolatry. The Targum, and many versions q, render it, "with the mountains"; and the Vulgate Latin version, and others, "against the mountains" r; the inhabitants of Judea, that being a mountainous country, especially some parts of it. Some by "mountains" understand the great men of the land, king, princes, nobles; and, by "hills", lesser magistrates, with whom the Lord's controversy chiefly was; they not discharging their offices aright, nor setting good examples to the people. Some copies of the Targum, as the king of Spain's Bible, paraphrase it,

"judge or contend with the fathers, and let the mothers hear thy voice;''

which Kimchi thus explains, as if it was said, let the fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the mothers Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah, hear what their children hath rendered to the Lord; let them be, as it were, called out of their graves to hear the ill requital made to the Lord for all his goodness.

q את ההרים "cum istis montiibus", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Tarnovius "cum montibus", Montanus, Munster, Cocceius, Burkius. r "Adversum montes", V. L. Grotius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear ye now what the Lord saith - If ye will not hear the rebuke of man, hear now at last the word of God. “Arise thou, Micah.” The prophet was not willing to be the herald of woe to his people; but had to arise at the bidding of God, that he might not “be rebellious like that rebellious house” Ezekiel 2:8. Stand up; as one having all authority to rebuke, and daunted by none. He muses the hearer, as shewing it to be a very grave urgent matter, to be done promptly, urgently, without delay. “Contend thou before (better, as in the English margin with) the mountains.” Since man, who had reason, would not use his reason, God calls the mountains and hills, who Romans 8:20 unwillingly, as it were, had been the scenes of their idolatry, as if he would say (Lap.), “Insensate though ye be, ye are more sensible than Israel, whom I endowed with sense; for ye feel the voice and command of God your Creator and obey Him; they do not. I cite you, to represent your guilty inhabitants, that, through you, they may hear My complaint to be just, and own themselves guilty, repent, and ask forgiveness.” “The altars and idols, the blood of the sacrifices, the bones and ashes upon them, with unuttered yet clear voice, spoke of the idolatry and guilt of the Jews, and so pronounced God’s charge and expostulation to be just. Ezekiel is bidden, in like way, to prophesy against “the mountains of Israel Ezekiel 6:2-5, “I will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places, and your altars shall be desolate.” : “Lifeless nature without voice tells the glory of God; without ears it hears what the Lord speaks.” Psalms 19:3; Luke 19:40.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VI

This chapter reproves and threatens. The manner of raising the

attention by calling on man to urge his plea in the face of all

nature, and on the inanimate creation to hear the expostulation

of Jehovah with his people, is awakening and sublime. The words

of Jehovah follow, 3-5.

And God's mercies having been set forth to his people, one of

them is introduced, in a beautiful dramatic form, asking what

his duty is towards a God so gracious, 6, 7.

The answer follows in the words of the prophet, 8;

who goes on to upbraid the people of his charge with their

injustice and idolatry, to which he ascribes want of success in

their lawful undertakings, and those heave calamities which are

now impending, 9-15.

NOTES ON CHAP. VI

Verse Micah 6:1. Arise, contend thou — This chapter is a sort of dialogue between God and the people. GOD speaks the five first verses, and convicts the people of sin, righteousness, and judgment. The PEOPLE, convinced of their iniquity, deprecate God's judgments, in the sixth and seventh verses. In the eighth verse God prescribes the way in which they are to be saved; and then the prophet, by the command of God, goes on to remonstrate from the ninth verse to the end of the chapter.