The mountains will disintegrate ¹  beneath him, and the valleys will be split in two. ²  The mountains will melt ³  like wax in a fire, the rocks will slide down like water cascading down a steep slope. ⁴ 

biblegateway Mic 1:4

The mountains will melt under Him And the valleys will be split, Like wax before the fire, Like water poured down a steep place.

The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax near a fire, like water cascading down a mountainside.

Mountains will melt under him like wax near a fire. Valleys will split apart like water pouring down a steep hill.

biblegateway Mic 1:4

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

And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.

bibleoremus Mic 1:4

Then the mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax near the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.

At his touch mountains dissolve like wax before fire; valleys are torn open as when torrents pour down a hillside:

biblegateway Mic 1:4

The mountains will melt under Him, And the valleys will split Like wax before the fire, Like waters poured down a steep place.

And 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.

biblegateway Mic 1:4

The mountains will disintegrate ¹  beneath him, and the valleys will be split in two. ²  The mountains will melt ³  like wax in a fire, the rocks will slide down like water cascading down a steep slope. ⁴ 

¹ tn Or “melt” (NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This is a figurative description of earthquakes, landslides, and collapse of the mountains, rather than some sort of volcanic activity (note the remainder of the verse).

² sn The mountains will disintegrate…the valleys will be split in two. This imagery pictures an earthquake and accompanying landslide.

³ tn The words “the mountains will melt” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The simile extends back to the first line of the verse.

⁴ tn The words “the rocks will slide down” are supplied in the translation for clarification. This simile elaborates on the prior one and further develops the imagery of the verse’s first line.