Michée 6:1-8

1 Ecoutez donc ce que dit l'Eternel: Lève-toi, plaide devant les montagnes, Et que les collines entendent ta voix!...

2 Ecoutez, montagnes, le procès de l'Eternel, Et vous, solides fondements de la terre! Car l'Eternel a un procès avec son peuple, Il veut plaider avec Israël. -

3 Mon peuple, que t'ai-je fait? En quoi t'ai-je fatigué? Réponds-moi!

4 Car je t'ai fait monter du pays d'Egypte, Je t'ai délivré de la maison de servitude, Et j'ai envoyé devant toi Moïse, Aaron et Marie.

5 Mon peuple, rappelle-toi ce que projetait Balak, roi de Moab, Et ce que lui répondit Balaam, fils de Beor, De Sittim à Guilgal, Afin que tu reconnaisses les bienfaits de l'Eternel.

6 Avec quoi me présenterai-je devant l'Eternel, Pour m'humilier devant le Dieu Très-Haut? Me présenterai-je avec des holocaustes, Avec des veaux d'un an?

7 L'Eternel agréera-t-il des milliers de béliers, Des myriades de torrents d'huile? Donnerai-je pour mes transgressions mon premier-né, Pour le péché de mon âme le fruit de mes entrailles? -

8 On t'a fait connaître, ô homme, ce qui est bien; Et ce que l'Eternel demande de toi, C'est que tu pratiques la justice, Que tu aimes la miséricorde, Et que tu marches humblement avec ton Dieu.

Michée 6:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 6

This chapter contains reproofs of the people of Israel for their sins, threatening them with punishment for them. The prophet is bid to tell them of the controversy the Lord had with them, which he did, Mic 6:1,2; and the Lord calls upon them to declare if they had any thing to object to his attitude towards them, Mic 6:3; and then puts them in mind of the favours they had received from him, in bringing them out of Egypt, and giving them such useful persons to go before them, lead and instruct them, as he had, Mic 6:4; and also reminds them of what passed between Balak, king of Moab, and Balaam the soothsayer; the questions of the one, and the answer of the other; whereby the designs of the former against them were frustrated, Mic 6:5-8; but since the voice of the Lord by his prophet was disregarded by them, they are called upon to hearken to the voice of his rod, Mic 6:9; which should be laid upon them for their fraudulent dealings, injustice, oppression, lies, and deceit, Mic 6:10-12; and therefore are threatened with sickness and desolation, and a deprivation of all good things, the fruit of their labours, Mic 6:13-15; and that because the statutes of Omri, the works of Ahab, and their counsels, were observed by them, Mic 6:16.