Micah 1:4

WEB

⁴The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

KJV

⁴And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

BSB

⁴The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

FBV

⁴The mountains melt beneath him, the valleys burst apart, like wax in front of a fire, like water rushing down a slope. All this is happening because of the rebellion of the descendants of Jacob, the sins of the people of Israel.

Extra References

Nahum 1:5

⁵The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

Psalms 97:5

⁵The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Habakkuk 3:6

⁶He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

Amos 9:5

⁵For the Lord, the GOD ^[+] of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

Judges 5:4

⁴“LORD, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.

Habakkuk 3:10

¹⁰The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

Isaiah 64:1-3

¹Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence— ²as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil. Make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence! ³When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.

Psalms 68:2

²As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Zechariah 14:4

⁴His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

Revelation 20:11

¹¹I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away. There was found no place for them.