4 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.
4 The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
4 And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.
4 Mountains sink under his feet, valleys split apart; The rock mountains crumble into gravel, the river valleys leak like sieves.
4 The mountains will melt under Him, And the valleys will split Like wax before the fire, Like waters poured down a steep place.
4 The mountains melt beneath his feet and flow into the valleys like wax in a fire, like water pouring down a hill.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Micah 1:4
Commentary on Micah 1:1-7
(Read Micah 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.