Micah 6

Micah 6:1

VII. ISRAEL ON TRIAL (Chap. 6)6:1-5 The mountains are called to serve as judges while the LORD (the Prosecutor) states His case against Israel (the defendant). He rehearses His kindness to themdelivering them from . . . Egypt and preventing Balak and Balaam from cursing them. 6:6-8 What does the Most High seek in return for this? Not extravagant animal sacrifices! Certainly not human sacrifices! But justice, and mercy, and humility. Verse 8 describes what God requires; to obey this a person must have divine life. An unconverted person is totally incapable of producing this kind of righteousness. 6:9-12 The LORD’s voice cries to the city, recounting its sins as the cause of its calamity. The inhabitants used false weights and measures, they practiced violence, and they spoke lies. 6:13-16 Sin brings its own destruction, and the sins of the violent rich people would incur sickness, desolation, hunger, dissatisfaction, and frustration. They would not be permitted to enjoy the things they had obtained through dishonesty. The statutes of Omri (v. 16) may well refer to the idolatry which Omri encouraged (1Ki_16:25-26).