Micah 1:2
1Hear, all ye people; ehearken, O earth, and 2all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD fbe witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
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.
1:
Heb. Hear ye people, all of them.
e:
Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Psalms 50:0 A Psalm of Asaph.
Psalms 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Isaiah 1:2 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.
Jeremiah 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
Micah 6:2 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.
2:
Heb. the fulness thereof.
f:
Psalms 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Malachi 3:5 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.
the prophet here by proclamation requires earnest attention to his word. So Moses, Deu 4:26 30:19 32:1; so the psalmist, Psa 50:1,4; and so Isaiah, Isa 1:2 34:1.
either all the people of both kingdoms, all Israel and Judah, or else universally all people of all kingdoms whatever, both of that present age and all of future ages. Hearken, O earth: it may be taken for the meaner sort of people, the commonalty; but I rather incline to interpret it as both a tacit reproof of the deafness of this sinful and hardened people, with whom Micah now contends, and an appeal to the senseless creatures, or a summons to bring them in evidences for God against those kingdoms.
animate or inanimate creatures, all that are on the earth. If we interpret earth for the meaner sort of people, then this fulness of the earth will be the whole multitude of the people. It is a lofty strain, such as those of Moses, Deu 32:1, David, Psa 1:1, Isa 1:1,2, and Jer 6:19.
the mighty, holy, gracious, and faithful God, Lord of heaven and earth; who knows all your ways, who is a just judge, and a severe avenger of obdurate sinners.
by his word, the voice of his law, by his prophets whom he hath sent, by the judgments he doth execute according to his menaces; as by his sovereignty he is supreme judge, so by his omniscience and truth he is an authentic witness against you, O house of Jacob.
either from his temple at Jerusalem, or else from heaven, as Psa 11:4 Hab 2:20.