Micah 1:4 The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

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New International Version (©1984)
The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The mountains will melt under Him And the valleys will be split, Like wax before the fire, Like water poured down a steep place.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Mountains will melt under him like wax near a fire. Valleys will split apart like water pouring down a steep hill.

King James Bible
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

American King James Version
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

American Standard Version
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

Bible in Basic English
And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the mountains shall be melted under him: and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as waters that run down a steep place.

Darby Bible Translation
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters poured down a steep place.

English Revised Version
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

World English Bible
The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

Young's Literal Translation
Melted have been the mountains under Him, And the valleys do rend themselves, As wax from the presence of fire, As waters cast down by a slope.

Geneva Study Bible

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

Wesley's Notes

1:4 Cleft - Or rent in sunder, broken up and slide away.

King James Translators' Notes

a steep...: Heb. a descent

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. Imagery from earthquakes and volcanic agency, to describe the terrors which attend Jehovah's coming in judgment (compare Jud 5:5). Neither men of high degree, as the mountains, nor men of low degree, as the valleys, can secure themselves or their land from the judgments of God.

as wax-(Ps 97:5; compare Isa 64:1-3). The third clause, "as wax," &c., answers to the first in the parallelism, "the mountains shall be molten"; the fourth, "as the waters," &c., to the second, "the valleys shall be cleft." As wax melts by fire, so the mountains before God, at His approach; and as waters poured down a steep cannot stand but are diffused abroad, so the valleys shall be cleft before Jehovah.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-7 The earth is called upon, with all that are therein, to hear the prophet. God's holy temple will not protect false professors. Neither men of high degree, as the mountains, nor men of low degree, as the valleys, can secure themselves or the land from the judgments of God. If sin be found in God's people he will not spare them; and their sins are most provoking to him, for they are most reproaching. When we feel the smart of sin, it behoves us to seek what is the sin we smart for. Persons and places most exalted, are most exposed to spiritual diseases. The vices of leaders and rulers shall be surely and sorely punished. The punishment answers the sin. What they gave to idols, never shall prosper, nor do them any good. What is got by one lust, is wasted on another.

Psalm 97:5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Isaiah 64:1 Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence--

Isaiah 64:2 As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

Apart Beneath Broken Cast Cleft Deep Fire Flowing Melt Melted Molten Mountains Open Poured Presence Rend Rushing Slope Split Steep Themselves Valleys Waters Wax

Apart Beneath Broken Cleft Deep Fire Flowing Melt Melted Molten Mountains Open Poured Presence Rend Rushing Slope Split Steep Themselves Turned Valleys Water Waters Wax

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

the mountains. Jud 5:4 Ps 97:5 Isa 64:1-3 Am 9:5 Na 1:5 Hab 3:6,10 2Pe 3:10-12 Re 20:11

the valleys. Zec 14:4

as wax. Ps 68:2

a steep place. Heb. a descent.

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