Micah Chapters 6-7
6:1 “Hear now what the Lord is saying”: “When God speaks, the highest duty of humankind is to listen, i.e., obey’ (Smith p. 341). Here is a clear claim that God was speaking through Micah, and either the Biblical writers were speaking the Word of God, or they were liars, there is no middle ground. “Plead your case before the mountains”: “As the mountains and hills have witnessed the whole of Israel’s history, so now Jehovah calls upon the nation to present their cause before these as before a jury. They have witnessed both the nation’s ingratitude and Jehovah’s goodness” (Hailey pp. 212-213). 6:2 The term case is a technical one for a formal controversy between two parties. The mountains are called the enduring ones, for they had stood where God had stationed them at the founding of the earth. All of us should take special notice of this section of Scripture, for this is how God judges, and this is the type of examination that the unfaithful will face at the last day. God doesn’t look the other way, neither does He excuse the lack of faithfulness on the part of His people. Grace just doesn’t automatically cover the disobedient, rather, for the unfaithful, and God is a prosecutor. God has a dispute with these people, which is a word that means to “argue” or “litigate”. Clearly, God is an aggrieved party. 6:3 “My people, what have I done to you, and how have I wearied you? Answer Me” God is asking, “What have I done to deserve your neglect, ingratitude, and defiance?” “Some hint of Judah’s complaint against Yahweh is found in the second question which Yahweh asks His people, ‘How have I wearied you?’ The verb ‘wearied’ suggests to weary the patience of a person by demands of too great severity, or by failing to perform one’s promises” (Smith p. 1