The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord - (Micah 1:4.) There the words are applied to the judgment of God about to fall on the people of the covenant: here it is applied to the judgment on the God-opposed world. The fact that 'judgment has begun at the house of God' is a token that judgments of a far more destructive kind will overtake 'the (openly,) ungodly and sinners' (1 Peter 4:17). "The hills symbolize the heights of man's self-exalting pride of intellect, wealth, and power.
At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth - (Micah 4:13.)