Micah 1:4New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— The mountains will melt under Him And the valleys will be split, Like wax before the fire, Like water poured down a steep place.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— 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.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— 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.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— 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.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— 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.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— 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.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Then shall the mountains be melted beneath him, and, the valleys, be cleft,—as wax before the fire, as waters poured out in a steep place.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 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.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— 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.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— And the mountaines shall melt vnder him (so shall the valleys cleaue) as waxe before the fire, and as the waters that are powred downewarde.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And the mountaines shall be molten vnder him, and the valleis shall be cleft: as waxe before the fire, [and] as the waters that are powred downe a steepe place.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And the mountains shall melt under him, and the valleys shall be rent asunder like wax before the fire, and like waters that run down a steep place.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And the mountains shall be shaken under him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a declivity.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— 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. |
And the mountains
2022 {2022} Primeהַרhar{har}
A shortened form of H2042; a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively).
shall be molten
4549 {4549} Primeמָסַסmacac{maw-sas'}
A primitive root; to liquefy; figuratively to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief).
z8738 <8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 1429
under
x8478 (8478) Complementתַּחַתtachath{takh'-ath}
From the same as H8430; the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.
him, and the valleys
6010 {6010} Primeעֵמֶק`emeq{ay'-mek}
From H6009; a vale (that is, broad depression).
shall be cleft,
1234 {1234} Primeבּקעbaqa`{baw-kah'}
A primitive root; to cleave; generally to rend, break, rip or open.
z8691 <8691> Grammar
Stem - Hithpael (See H8819) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 533
as wax
1749 {1749} Primeדּוֹנַגdownag{do-nag'}
Of uncertain derivation; wax.
before
6440 {6440} Primeפָּנִיםpaniym{paw-neem'}
Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun ( פָּנֶה paneh, {paw-neh'}; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ( before, etc.).
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
the fire,
784 {0784} Primeאֵשׁ'esh{aysh}
A primitive word; fire (literally or figuratively).
[ and] as the waters
4325 {4325} Primeמַיִםmayim{mah'-yim}
Dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively juice; by euphemism urine, semen.
[ that are] poured
y5064 [5064] Standardנגרnagar{naw-gar'}
A primitive root; to flow; figuratively to stretch out; causatively to pour out or down; figuratively to deliver over.
z8716 <8716> Grammar
Stem - Hophal (See H8825) Mood - Participle (See H8813) Count - 113
down
x5064 (5064) Complementנגרnagar{naw-gar'}
A primitive root; to flow; figuratively to stretch out; causatively to pour out or down; figuratively to deliver over.
a steep place.
4174 {4174} Primeמוֹרָדmowrad{mo-rawd'}
From H3381; a descent; architecturally an ornamental appendage, perhaps a festoon. |
Micah 1:4
_ _ Imagery from earthquakes and volcanic agency, to describe the terrors which attend Jehovah’s coming in judgment (compare Judges 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 — (Psalms 97:5; compare Isaiah 64:1-3). The third clause, “as wax,” etc., answers to the first in the parallelism, “the mountains shall be molten”; the fourth, “as the waters,” etc., 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. |
Micah 1:4
Cleft — Or rent in sunder, broken up and slide away. |
- the mountains:
Judges 5:4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
Psalms 97:5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Isaiah 64:1-3 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, ... When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Amos 9:5 And the Lord GOD of hosts [is] he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt.
Nahum 1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Habakkuk 3:6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways [are] everlasting.
Habakkuk 3:10 The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands on high.
2 Peter 3:10-12 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. ... Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
|
- the valleys:
Zechariah 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
|
- as wax:
Psalms 68:2 As smoke is driven away, [so] drive [them] away: as wax melteth before the fire, [so] let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
|
- a steep place:
- Heb. a descent
|
  |
|
|
