Micah 6

Verse 1

WEB Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

KJV Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

TSK ye: mic 1:2, 1sa 15:16, jer 13:15, am 3:1, heb 3:7,8; contend: de 4:26, de 32:1, ps 50:1,4, isa 1:2, jer 22:29, eze 36:1,8, lu 19:40; before: mic 1:4, isa 2:12-14; let: eze 37:4

Verse 2

WEB Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

KJV 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.

TSK foundations: de 32:22, 2sa 22:8,16, ps 104:5, pr 8:29, jer 31:37; a controversy: isa 1:18, isa 5:3, isa 43:26, jer 2:9,29-35, jer 25:31, eze 20:35,36, ho 4:1, ho 12:2

Verse 3

WEB My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

KJV O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

TSK O my: mic 6:5, ps 50:7, ps 81:8,13; what: jer 2:5,31; wherein: isa 43:22,23; testify: ps 51:4, ro 3:4,5,19

Verse 4

WEB For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

KJV For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

TSK I brought: ex 12:51, ex 14:30,31, ex 20:2, de 4:20,34, de 5:6, de 9:26, ne 9:9-11, ps 78:51-53, ps 106:7-10, ps 136:10,11, isa 63:9-12, jer 32:21, eze 20:5-9, am 2:10, ac 7:36; and redeemed: de 7:8, de 15:15, de 24:18, 2sa 7:23; Moses: ex 15:20,21, nu 12:1

Verse 5

WEB My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

KJV O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.

TSK remember: de 8:2,18, de 9:7, de 16:3, ps 103:1,2, ps 111:4, eph 2:11; Balak: nu 22:1-25, nu 31:16, de 23:4,5, jos 24:9,10, re 2:14; Balaam: nu 31:8, 2pe 2:15, jude 1:11; Shittim: nu 22:41, nu 23:13,14,27, nu 25:1, nu 33:49, jos 4:19, jos 5:9,10, jos 10:42,43; know: jud 5:11, ps 36:10, ps 71:15,16,19, ps 143:11, ro 3:25,26, 1jo 1:9

Verse 6

WEB How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

KJV Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

TSK Wherewith: 2sa 21:3, mt 19:16, lu 10:25, joh 6:26, ac 2:37, ac 16:30, ro 10:2,3; bow: ps 22:29, ps 95:6, eph 3:14; the high: ge 14:18-22, da 3:26, da 4:9, da 5:18,21, mr 5:7, ac 16:17; with: le 1:3-17, nu 23:1-4,14,15,29,30, heb 10:4-10; of a year old: ex 12:5

Verse 7

WEB Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

KJV Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

TSK pleased: 1sa 15:22, ps 10:8-13, ps 50:9, ps 51:16, isa 1:11-15, isa 40:16, jer 7:21,22, ho 6:6, am 5:22; rivers: job 29:6; shall: jud 11:31,39, 2ki 3:27, 2ki 16:3, 2ki 21:6, 2ki 23:10, jer 7:31, jer 19:5, eze 16:20,21, eze 23:37; body: phm 1:12

Verse 8

WEB He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

KJV He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

TSK O man: ro 9:20, 1co 7:16, jas 2:20; what is: 1sa 12:23, ne 9:13, ps 73:28, la 3:26, lu 10:42, ro 7:16, 2th 2:16; and what: de 10:12,13; to do: ge 18:19, 1sa 15:22, pr 21:3, ec 12:13, isa 1:16-19, isa 58:6-11, jer 7:3-6, ho 6:6, ho 12:6, am 5:24, zep 2:3, mt 3:8-10, mr 12:30-34, lu 11:42, tit 2:11,12, 2pe 1:5-8; love: ps 37:26, ps 112:4,9, isa 57:1,2, mt 5:7, mt 18:32-35, lu 6:36, eph 4:32, col 3:12, 1pe 3:8; walk humbly: ge 5:22, le 26:41, 2ch 30:11, 2ch 32:26, 2ch 33:12,13,19,23, 2ch 34:27, isa 57:15, isa 66:2, eze 16:63, da 4:37, mt 5:3, lu 18:13-17, ro 10:1-3, jas 4:6-10, 1pe 5:5,6

Verse 9

WEB Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

KJV The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

TSK Lord's: mic 3:12, isa 24:10-12, isa 27:10, isa 32:13,14, isa 40:6-8, isa 66:6, jer 19:11-13, jer 26:6,18, jer 37:8-10, ho 13:16, am 2:5, am 3:8-15, am 6:1, jon 3:4, zep 3:2; and: 2ki 22:11-20, ps 107:43, pr 22:3, isa 26:11, ho 14:9; the man of wisdom shall see thy name: ex 34:5-7, ps 9:16, ps 48:10, ps 83:18, isa 30:27; hear: 2sa 21:1, job 5:6-8,17, job 10:2, isa 9:13, isa 10:5,6, jer 14:18-22, la 3:39-42, joe 2:11-18, am 4:6-12, jon 3:5-10, hag 1:5-7, re 3:19

Verse 10

WEB Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?

KJV Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

TSK the treasures: jos 7:1, 2ki 5:23,24, pr 10:2, pr 21:6, jer 5:26,27, am 3:10, hab 2:5-11, zep 1:9, zec 5:3,4, jas 5:1-4; and: le 19:35,36, de 25:13-16, pr 11:1, pr 20:10,23, eze 45:9-12, ho 12:7,8, am 8:5,6

Verse 11

WEB Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

KJV Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

TSK the wicked: ho 12:7; the bag: pr 16:11

Verse 12

WEB Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

KJV For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

TSK the rich: mic 2:1,2, mic 3:1-3,9-11, mic 7:2-6, isa 1:23, isa 5:7, jer 5:5,6,26-29, jer 6:6,7, eze 22:6-13,25-29, ho 4:1,2, am 5:11,12, am 6:1-3, zep 3:3; spoken: isa 59:3-15, jer 9:2-6,8, ho 7:1,13, ro 3:13

Verse 13

WEB Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.

KJV Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

TSK I make: le 26:16, de 28:21,22, job 33:19-22, ps 107:17,18, isa 1:5,6, jer 14:18, ac 12:23; in: la 1:13, la 3:11, ho 5:9, ho 13:16

Verse 14

WEB You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

KJV Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

TSK eat: le 26:26, isa 65:13, eze 4:16,17, ho 4:10, hag 1:6, hag 2:16; and thou: de 32:22-25, isa 3:6-8, isa 24:17-20, jer 48:44, eze 5:12, am 2:14-16, am 9:1-4

Verse 15

WEB You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine.

KJV Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

TSK Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.: le 26:20, de 28:38-40, isa 62:8,9, isa 65:21,22, jer 12:13, joe 1:10-12, am 5:11, zep 1:13, hag 1:6

Verse 16

WEB For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

KJV For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

TSK the statutes of Omri are kept: 1ki 16:25-30, ho 5:11; the works: 1ki 16:30-33, 1ki 18:4, 1ki 21:25,26, 2ki 16:3, 2ki 21:3, isa 9:16, re 2:20; ye walk: ps 1:1, jer 7:24; that: 1ki 9:8, 2ch 29:8,9, 2ch 34:25, jer 18:15,16, jer 19:8, jer 21:8,9, eze 8:17,18; therefore: ps 44:13, isa 25:8, jer 51:51, la 5:1, eze 39:26, da 9:16