The Meaning of Micah 1:2 Explained

Micah 1:2

KJV: 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.

YLT: 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.

Darby: 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!

ASV: 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.

Discover Micah 1:2

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Micah 1:2?

MEANING: What does Micah 1:2 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Micah 1:2 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Micah 1:2?

What is the context of Micah 1:2?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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.

What does Micah 1:2 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Micah cried, "Hear ye, hear ye!" to the people of the earth, as a clerk summons a courtroom jury to pay attention to the testimony that will follow. Micah presented his message in the setting of a courtroom trial. This is the rib (lawsuit) oracle form, examples of which are quite common in the Prophets. Sovereign Yahweh was about to give His witness against His people ("you," Micah"s audience; cf. Deuteronomy 31:19-21; Deuteronomy 31:26). This appeal assumes that those called on to listen will agree with the testimony to be given. The Lord would come out of His temple to give His testimony. The Hebrew word hekal literally means "palace" rather than "temple." It refers to the location of the throne of judgment. This appears to be a reference to God"s heavenly temple in view of the following verses (cf. Psalm 11:4; Isaiah 3:13-14; Habakkuk 2:20).

"What the peoples are supposed to hear serves not to increase their knowledge but to determine their lives." ^[1]

Context Summary

Micah 1:1-16 - God's Witness Against His Chosen

Micah was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea. Jeremiah quotes from him. Compare Micah 3:12 and Jeremiah 26:18.

In Micah 1:1-4 the prophet summons the nations to behold the just punishment which Jehovah would mete out to His faithless people. Micah 1:5-6 portray the desolation of Samaria. Destruction would settle on the homes and fields of men, and the prospect of this so affected the prophet that he divested himself of outer garment and sandals, that his disheveled condition might depict the calamities that he announced. Micah 1:10-16 make clear that Judah also would suffer similar chastisements. Aphrah and Shaphir would be hurried into captivity. So universal would be the calamity that Zaanan would not come to bewail with the neighboring city of Bethezel.

The prophets were true patriots and they felt that all good citizens should lament with them, Micah 1:16, in the hope of averting impending judgments. Are we feeling the sins and sorrows of our time, as Jesus felt those of Jerusalem, when He wept over the city? [source]

Chapter Summary: Micah 1

¹ The time when Micah prophesied
² He shows the wrath of God against Jacob for idolatry
¹⁰ He exhorts to mourning

What do the individual words in Micah 1:2 mean?

Hear peoples all you Listen earth and all that is in it let be the Lord GOD against you a witness from temple His holy

שִׁמְעוּ֙ עַמִּ֣ים כֻּלָּ֔ם הַקְשִׁ֖יבִי אֶ֣רֶץ וּמְלֹאָ֑הּ וִיהִי֩ אֲדֹנָ֨י יְהוִ֤ה בָּכֶם֙ לְעֵ֔ד מֵהֵיכַ֥ל קָדְשֽׁוֹ

שִׁמְעוּ֙	Hear
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine plural Root: שָׁמַע Sense: to hear, listen to, obey.
עַמִּ֣ים	peoples
Parse: Noun, masculine plural Root: עַם Sense: nation, people.
כֻּלָּ֔ם	all you
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine plural Root: כֹּל Sense: all, the whole.
הַקְשִׁ֖יבִי	Listen
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperative, feminine singular Root: קָשַׁב Sense: to hear, be attentive, heed, incline (of ears), attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen.
אֶ֣רֶץ	earth
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: אֶרֶץ Sense: land, earth.
וּמְלֹאָ֑הּ	and all that is in it
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular Root: מְלֹא Sense: fullness, that which fills.
וִיהִי֩	let be
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive imperfect Jussive, third person masculine singular Root: אֶהְיֶה Sense: to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out.
אֲדֹנָ֨י	the Lord
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: אֲדֹנָי Sense: my lord, lord.
יְהוִ֤ה	GOD
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: יהוה Sense: Jehovah—used primarily in the combination ‘Lord Jehovah’.
בָּכֶם֙	against you
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
לְעֵ֔ד	a witness
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular Root: עֵד Sense: witness.
מֵהֵיכַ֥ל	from temple
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct Root: הֵיכָל Sense: palace, temple, nave, sanctuary.
קָדְשֽׁוֹ	His holy
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular Root: קֹדֶשׁ Sense: apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness.

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