Micah 6:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² Hear, O ye mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Hear, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, and you strong and enduring foundations of the earth, for the Lord has a controversy (a pleading contention) with His people, and He will [pleadingly] contend with Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah’s controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

Common English Bible

² Hear, mountains, the lawsuit of the LORD! Hear, eternal foundations of the earth! The LORD has a lawsuit against his people; with Israel he will argue.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Let the mountains listen to the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth. For the judgment of the Lord is with his people, and he will enter into judgment with Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Let the mountains hear the judgment of the Lord, and the strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord will enter into judgment with his people, and he will plead against Israel.

Micah 6:2 Cross References

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare, by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

2 Samuel 22:8

Then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations of heaven moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

Psalm 104:5

Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.

Proverbs 8:29

When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment: When he marked out the foundations of the earth:

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 3:13

The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples.

Isaiah 43:26

Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth thy cause, that thou mayest be justified.

Isaiah 5:3

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

Jeremiah 2:9

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

Jeremiah 25:31

A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 31:37

Thus saith the LORD: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

Hosea 12:2

The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

Hosea 12:3

In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he had power with God:

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Micah 6:1

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

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest pit, And devoureth the earth with her increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.