Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 6:2

2 Hear ye, O mountains , the LORDS controversie , and ye strong foundations of the earth : for the LORD hath a controversie with his people , and he will plead with Israel .

In the first verse God directs Micah to take the Mountains and Hills for Witnesses; now in this verse he doth call upon those Mountains to hear: It is a Prosopopeia, an Elegant personating of Hearers and Witnesses, as Deut. 32.1. Isa. 1.2. and 2.2. some by Mountains understand Princes and Nobles, and by strong Foundations of the Earth inferiour Magistrates, as P[illegible: 1 letter]al. 75.3. but it may as well, or better be an appeal to these Creatures in so just a cause for their Creator.

Whose Soveraign Majesty may well command what he pleaseth, and expect to be obey'd, and whose unparallel'd Goodness to Israel ought to have been uncontroverted motives to obey him in all things, yet the Sovereign Goodness is slighted and disobeyed, on which he now impleads his people, brings his Action against them.

Call'd before Hills: It is an explana[illegible: 1 letter]ion of the former, Mountains, or it may be an appeal to those deep foundations which are hid from any Eye, and which seem most remote from what is done on Earth, but the ill carriage, the disobedience, and sin of Israel is so notorious, that the whole Creation may be Sub poena'd Witnesses against them.

Covenant, Redeemed, and only people, as Amos 3.2.

No longer put off the cause, nor forbear to punish them, and right himself, he will bring the cause to hearing Judgment, and Execution too.

Marginal references: Psal. 5.1, 4.; Isa. 1.18. and 5.3, 4. and 43.26. Hos. 4.1.