--- title: "Micah 6 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Micah 6 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD’s controve" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/micah/6" --- [ Read](/kjv/micah/6)[ Commentary](/study/micah/6)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/micah/6) Audio 1 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.* 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. 3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. 4 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. 5 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. 6 ¶ 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?* 7 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?* 8 He hath shewed 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?* 9 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.* 10 ¶ Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure *that is* abominable?** 11 Shall I count *them* pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?* 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue *is* deceitful in their mouth. 13 Therefore also will I make *thee* sick in smiting thee, in making *thee* desolate because of thy sins. 14 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. 15 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. 16 ¶ 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.** [Micah 5](/study/micah/5) [Micah 7](/study/micah/7) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Mic 6:1](/kjv/mic/6/1) Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Ver. 1. **Hear ye now what the Lord saith** ] *Exordium breve est, sed plane patheticum,* saith Gualther. This is a short, but pithy and pathetic preface, wherein he woos their attention: *Audite quaeso,* Hear, I pray you. Ministers are spokesmen for Christ, and must therefore give good words: and yet remembering on whose errand they come, it is required that they be found faithful, [1 Corinthians 4:2](/kjv/1-corinthians/4/2) . **** **Arise, contend thou** ] Surge, age, O Micah! Debate thou God’s cause against this rebellious and ungrateful people, as it were in judgment; calling all, even the insensible creatures, to be judges.[See the like Deu 32:1](/kjv/-see-the-like-deu/32/1)[Isa 1:2](/kjv/-isa/1/2) [Micah 1:2](/kjv/micah/1/2) (for these two prophets have many things common), and be sensible, that some sit as senseless before a preacher still as the seats they sit on, pillars they lean to, dead bodies they tread upon; so that we have need (as one did once in my hearing) to call to the walls and windows to hear the word of the Lord. This heavy ear is meted for a singular judgment,[Mat 13:13-14](/kjv/-mat/13/13-14) [Isaiah 30:8-9](/kjv/isaiah/30/8-9) . The philosopher was angry with his Boeotians: telling them that they had not their name for nought, since their ears were ox ears, and that they were dull creatures, and incapable of counsel. Demosthenes also, for like cause, called upon his countrymen of Athens to get their ears healed; and Diogenes used to tell his tale to the statues and images, that he might inure himself to lose his labour, as he had so often done, in speaking to the people. Let us, to the wearing of our tongues to the stumps, preach and pray never so much, men will on in sin, said blessed Bradford, in that excellent sermon of his of repentance. We cry till we are hoarse (saith another rare preacher), we speak till we spit forth our lungs; but all to as little purpose as Bede did, when he preached to a heap of stones. *Asino quispiam narrabat fabulam: at ille movebat aures.* But shall people thus carry it away, and God lose the sweet words? Never think of it. Those that will not hear the word shall bear the rod, [Micah 6:9](/kjv/micah/6/9) : and if they could but see their misery they would do as the prophet requires, cut their hair and cast it away, under the sense of the horror of God’s indignation, [Jeremiah 7:27](/kjv/jeremiah/7/27) ; [Jeremiah 7:29](/kjv/jeremiah/7/29) , they would beg of God a hearing ear (which is as an earring of gold,[Pro 25:12](/kjv/-pro/25/12) ), and beseech him to make the bore bigger, that his word might enter; yea, to draw up the ears of their souls to the ears of their bodies, that one saving sound might pierce both at once. Let him that hath an ear to hear, hear; or if yet any think good to forbear, let him forbear, [Ezekiel 3:27](/kjv/ezekiel/3/27) , but he will certainly repent it. He that now gives God occasion to call to the hills, &c., shall one day tire the deaf mountains, saying, Fall on me, hide me, dash and quash me in a thousand pieces. 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