Micah 6:9
Good News Translation
It is wise to fear the LORD. He calls to the city, "Listen, you people who assemble in the city!

New Revised Standard Version
The voice of the LORD cries to the city (it is sound wisdom to fear your name): Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!

Contemporary English Version
I am the LORD, and you are wise to respect my power to punish. So listen to my message for the city of Jerusalem:

New American Bible
The LORD cries aloud to the city (It is prudent to fear your name!): Hear, O tribe and city assembly,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear O ye tribes, and who shall approve it?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear O ye tribes, and who shall approve it?

Lord's.

Micah 3:12 Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come among us.

Isaiah 24:10-12 The city of vanity is broken down, every house is shut up, no man cometh in. . . .

Isaiah 27:10 For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches.

Isaiah 32:13,14 Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced? . . .

Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. . . .

Isaiah 66:6 A voice of the people from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to his enemies.

Jeremiah 19:11-13 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Even so will I break this people, and this city, as the potter's vessel is broken, which cannot be made whole again: and they shall be buried in Topheth, because there is no other place to bury in. . . .

Jeremiah 26:6,18 I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. . . .

Jeremiah 37:8-10 Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying: The Chaldeans shall surely depart and go away from us: for they shall not go away. . . .

Hosea 13:16 Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.

Amos 2:5 And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.

Amos 3:8-15 The lion shall roar, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who shall not prophesy? . . .

Amos 6:1 Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the people, that go in with state into the house of Israel.

Jonah 3:4 And Jonah arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.

Zephaniah 3:2 She hath not hearkened to the voice, neither hath she received discipline: she hath not trusted in the Lord, she drew not near to her God.

and.

2 Kings 22:11-20 And the king had heard the words of the law of the Lord, he rent his garments. . . .

Psalm 107:43 Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the mercies of the Lord?

Proverbs 22:3 The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.

Isaiah 26:11 Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.

Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

the man of wisdom shall see thy name.

Exodus 34:5-7 And when the Lord was come down in a cloud, Moses stood with him, calling upon the name of the Lord. . . .

Psalm 9:16 The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.

Psalm 48:10 According to thy name, O God, so also is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of justice.

Psalm 83:18 And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.

Isaiah 30:27 Behold the name of the Lord cometh from afar, his wrath burneth, and is heavy to bear: his lips are filled with indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire.

hear.

2 Samuel 21:1 And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the Gabaonites.

Job 5:6-8,17 Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground. . . .

Job 10:2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?

Isaiah 9:13 And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and have not sought after the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 10:5,6 Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands. . . .

Jeremiah 14:18-22 If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not. . . .

Lamentations 3:39-42 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? . . .

Joel 2:11-18 And the Lord hath uttered his voice before the face of his army: for his armies are exceedingly great, for they are strong, and execute his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible: and who can stand it? . . .

Amos 4:6-12 Whereupon I also have given you dulness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, saith the Lord. . . .

Jonah 3:5-10 And Jonah began to enter into the city one day's journey: and he cried and said: Yet forty days and Ninive shall be destroyed. . . .

Haggai 1:5-7 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways. . . .

Revelation 3:19 Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

Context
The Punishment of Israel
9The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear O ye tribes, and who shall approve it?10As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 47:7
How shall it be quiet, when the Lord hath given it a charge against Ascalon, and against the countries thereof by the sea side, and there hath made an appointment for it?

Micah 6:8
I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Micah 6:10
As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath.

Micah 6:8
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