Micah 6:2 Cross References - BBE

² Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

²² For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

⁸ Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

¹⁶ Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

⁵ He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

²⁹ When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

¹⁸ Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

³ And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.

²⁶ Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

⁹ For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

²⁹ Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord. ³⁰ I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion. ³¹ O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again? ³² Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days. ³³ With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) your ways. ³⁴ And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) ³⁵ And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

³¹ A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord.

³⁷ This is what the Lord has said: If the heavens on high may be measured, and the bases of the earth searched out, then I will give up the seed of Israel, because of all they have done, says the Lord.

³⁵ And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face. ³⁶ As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.

¹ Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

² The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will give punishment to Jacob for his ways; he will give him the reward of his acts.