Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Imagery from earthquakes and volcanic agency, to describe the terrors which attend Jehovah's coming in judgment (compare Judges 5:5). Neither men of high degree, as the mountains, nor men of low degree, as the valleys, can secure themselves or their land from the judgments of God.
as wax— (Psalms 97:5; compare Isaiah 64:1-3). The third clause, "as wax," etc.; answers to the first in the parallelism, "the mountains shall be molten"; the fourth, "as the waters," etc.; to the second, "the valleys shall be cleft." As wax melts by fire, so the mountains before God, at His approach; and as waters poured down a steep cannot stand but are diffused abroad, so the valleys shall be cleft before Jehovah.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Micah 1:4:
Job 20:28
Isaiah 64:1
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