Micah 1:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hear: the prophet here by proclamation requires earnest attention to his word. So Moses, Deuteronomy 4:26, Deuteronomy 30:19 32:1; so the psalmist, Psalms 50:1,4; and so Isaiah, Isaiah 1:2, Isaiah 34:1. All ye people; either all the people of both kingdoms, all Israel and Judah, or else universally all people of all kingdoms whatever, both of that present age and all of future ages. Hearken, O earth: it may be taken for the meaner sort of people, the commonalty; but I rather incline to interpret it as both a tacit reproof of the deafness of this sinful and hardened people, with whom Micah now contends, and an appeal to the senseless creatures, or a summons to bring them in evidences for God against those kingdoms. All that therein is; animate or inanimate creatures, all that are on the earth. If we interpret earth for the meaner sort of people, then this fulness of the earth will be the whole multitude of the people. It is a lofty strain, such as those of Moses, Deuteronomy 32:1, David, Psalms 1:1, Isaiah 1:1,2, and Jeremiah 6:19. Let the Lord God; the mighty, holy, gracious, and faithful God, Lord of heaven and earth; who knows all your ways, who is a just judge, and a severe avenger of obdurate sinners. Be witness against you, by his word, the voice of his law, by his prophets whom he hath sent, by the judgments he doth execute according to his menaces; as by his sovereignty he is supreme judge, so by his omniscience and truth he is an authentic witness against you, O house of Jacob. From his holy temple; either from his temple at Jerusalem, or else from heaven, as Psalms 11:4 Habakkuk 2:20.