The consonants are יראה. The Masoretes pointed them yir’eh, “will see,” and the reading line follows that pointing. It is the only place in the Hebrew Bible where a form of ra’ah (to see) stands beside shem (name).

Most English versions read “fear” instead. That is not a guess: the Septuagint, the Peshitta and the Vulgate all render a fear-root here, and about a dozen medieval Hebrew manuscripts collated by Kennicott and De Rossi read יראי, yir’ei, “those who fear” — a different final letter, not merely different vowels. To fear the Name is ordinary biblical idiom: to fear Your name at Psalm 86:11, 1 Kings 8:43 and 2 Chronicles 6:33, and the Name itself called feared at Psalm 111:9 and Malachi 1:14.

No Judean Desert manuscript settles it, because none preserves the verse. The Murabba’at Minor Prophets scroll (Mur88), otherwise close to the Masoretic text, breaks between Micah 6:7 and 6:11 — the gap swallows both this verse and the famous one before it. The Greek Minor Prophets scroll from Naḥal Ḥever stops at Micah 5:7. And the scrolls carry consonants only, so even a recovered fragment could rule on the letter, never on the vowel.

The rarity is worth weighing rather than explaining away. Sight and hearing are set side by side in this verse: something is seen, and then a summons — hear. Chapter six opens the same way, twice calling the mountains to listen.