Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth, for the Lord has spoken: ‘I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
Micah 6:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Now listen to what the Lord is saying: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your complaint. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition HEAR NOW what the Lord says: Arise, contend and plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. American Standard Version (1901) Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Common English Bible Hear what the LORD is saying: Arise, lay out the lawsuit before the mountains; let the hills hear your voice! Catholic Public Domain Version Listen to what the Lord says: Rise, contend in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hear ye what the Lord saith: Arise, contend thou in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. |
Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth, for the Lord has spoken: ‘I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
‘Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, “Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.
‘ “You, mountains of Israel, will produce your branches and bear your fruit for my people Israel, since their arrival is near.
He said to me, ‘Prophesy concerning these bones and say to them: Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!
You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
Listen to this message that the Lord has spoken against you, Israelites, against the entire clan that I brought from the land of Egypt:
Listen, all you peoples; pay attention, earth and everyone in it! The Lord God will be a witness against you, the Lord, from his holy temple.
The mountains will melt beneath him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax near a fire, like water cascading down a mountainside.
I will take vengeance in anger and wrath against the nations that have not obeyed me.
Listen to the Lord’s lawsuit, you mountains and enduring foundations of the earth, because the Lord has a case against his people, and he will argue it against Israel.
He answered, ‘I tell you, if they were to keep silent, the stones would cry out.’
Pay attention, heavens, and I will speak; listen, earth, to the words from my mouth.
I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.
Now present yourselves, so I may confront you before the Lord about all the righteous acts he has done for you and your ancestors.
‘Stop! ’ exclaimed Samuel. ‘Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night.’ ‘Tell me,’ he replied.