Micah 1:2-4:

For, look! Jehovah is going forth from his place, and he will certainly come down and tread upon earth’s high places.

6. In Micah 1:12; 2:3, 4; 4:10, how does Jehovah explain the meaning of those terrifying figures of speech?

⁶ In his further witnessing, Jehovah explains the meaning of those terrifying figures of speech by saying:

“What is bad has come down from Jehovah to the gates of Jerusalem.” (Mic. 1:12) “Therefore this is what Jehovah has said, ‘Here I am thinking up against this family a calamity from which you people will not remove your necks, so that you will not walk haughtily; because it is a time of calamity. In that day one will raise up concerning you people a proverbial saying and will certainly lament a lamentation, even a lamentation. One will have to say: “We have positively been despoiled! The very portion of my people he alters. How he removes it from me!”’” (Mic. 2:3, 4) “Be in severe pains and burst forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman giving birth, for now . . . you will have to come as far as to Babylon.”​—Mic. 4:10.