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Micah 7:11

In the day that thy walls are to be built, rather, "a day of building thy walls" (is coming), so the prophet assures the believing members of His people, those who were truly awaiting the Messiah's coming, in that day shall the decree be far removed, namely, the decree which fixed a sharp line of division between Israel and the heathen nations.

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See also Micah 7:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Micah 7:11. In _THE DAY THAT THY WALLS ARE TO BE BUILT_] This refers to _Jerusalem_; the _decree_, to the purpose of God to deliver the people into captivity. "This shall be far removed." God h...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    On this confession of unworthiness and trust the message of joy bursts in, with the abruptness and conciseness of Hosea or Nahum: A day to build thy fences; (that is, cometh;) That day, far shall be...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The prophet's complaint (Micah 7:1) _ 2. Confession, prayer and thanksgiving (Micah 7:7) Micah 7:1. It is the prophet's voice complaining over the conditions of the people. But he is...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S CONFESSION OF FAITH. This undoubtedly post-exilic utterance of Israel's confidence _in._ Yahweh's delivering intervention falls into three portions, probably once distinct, viz. Micah 7:7 (th...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DECREE. prescribed limit or boundary. So the Oxford _Gesenius,_ p. 349. Compare Job 26:10; Job 38:10; Proverbs 8:29; Isaiah 24:5.

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Here the soliloquy of believing and repentant Israel ceases, and a prophetic announcement begins. _In the day that thy walls_ Rather, THERE COMETH A DAY TO BUILD THY WALLS. The image is that of a vin...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ISRAEL TURNED BACK TO GOD -- MICAH 7:8-13:_ The nation of Israel had fallen exceedingly low. After a time of repentance and spiritual growth God would raise them up again. Things might have been dark...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN THE DAY, &C.— _In the day that thy walls shall be rebuilt, that day shall remove from thee the decree_ or _judgment;_ that is to say, thine established laws; the laws of thy kingdom and temple. Tha...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE PROPHET LOOKS TO GOD. Micah 7:7-13 RV. But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I s...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed. IN THE DAY THAT THY WALLS ARE TO BE BUILT - under Cyrus, after the 70 years' captivity; and again, hereafter...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    7:11 limit (a-16) Or 'bound.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CONFESSION AND CONTRITION BRING BACK HOPE 1-6. Jerusalem laments her estate. The righteous among her children are taken from her by violence (Micah 7:1). The rulers misuse their position for their sel...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DECREE] RM 'boundary,' i.e. when God restores the nation and permits the walls to be rebuilt, He will give ample room: cp. Isaiah 33:17 rm....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 7 In this chapter, Micah continues to describe the situation in Jerusalem. But in his vision (dream), Micah seems to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Micah has spoken about his belief in God. He now speaks a message about hope. This part of the song has two sections. First, the other nations will enter inside the walls of Jerusalem (verses 11-12)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IN THAT DAY SHALL THE DECREE BE FAR REMOVED. — The “decree” was something “definite,” as an appointed law or statute, and this should be far removed. Some interpret this prophecy to mean the removal o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יֹ֖ום לִ בְנֹ֣ות גְּדֵרָ֑יִךְ יֹ֥ום הַ ה֖וּא

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS Micah 7:7 AFTER so stern a charge, so condign a sentence, confession is natural, and, with prayer for forgiveness and praise to the mercy of God, it fitly closes the whole book....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S COMPASSION FOR AN ERRING PEOPLE Micah 7:1-20 Things had come to an awful pass in the favored city. Oppression, bribery, and bloodshed, were everywhere in the ascendant. Men wrought evil with b...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Following the charge, the people break into a lamentation which is of the nature of a confession, submission to judgment and hope. The prophet answers the cry with a message of hope, which, however, e...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [In] (i) the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day shall (k) the decree be far removed. (i) That is, when God will show himself to be a deliverer of his Church, and a destroyer of his ene...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Law of thy enemies, who have tyrannized over thee. (Challoner) --- The walls of Jerusalem are ordered to be rebuilt, Aggeus i._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! it is truly blessed when a child of God can thus look at every foe and triumph in Christ. Times of darkness are times for faith to be in lively exercise. It is of no real consequence in what s...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to Israel, and so far with...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Micah pursues the subject on which he had previously spoken, — that though the Church thought itself for a time to be wholly lost, yet God would become its deliverer. He says first, _that the day was...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 7 the prophet takes the place of intercessor before God, in the name of the people-presenting to Him at once their deep misery and their iniquities [1] -speaking in their name, and identify...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    [IN] THE DAY THAT THY WALLS ARE TO BE BUILT,.... These words are not spoken to the enemy, as some think; either the Chaldeans, the walls of whose city, Babylon, being demolished by the Persians, it wo...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Micah 7:11 [In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day shall the decree be far removed. Ver. 11. _In the day that thy walls are to be built_] In the type, by Nehemiah, Nehemiah 3:1,32,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then she that is mine enemy_ Namely, the Chaldean nation. _Which said unto me_, (namely, when she held me captive,) _Where is the Lord thy God?_ Where is now Jehovah, whom thou worshippest, and sayes...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-13 Those truly penitent for sin, will see great reason to be patient under affliction. When we complain to the Lord of the badness of the times, we ought to complain against ourselves for the badne...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    These words are variously expounded, but the plainest and most suiting with the letter and history to me seems to be this: IN THE DAY THAT THY WALLS ARE TO BE BUILT; O Jerusalem, the days shall certai...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Micah 7:11 day H3117 walls H1447 built H1129 (H8800) day H3117 decree H2706 wide H7368 (H8799) the day -

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    The prophet begins in a sorrowful strain, and there is much that is said in the chapter, yet there is also much of holy confidence in God. Micah 7:1. _Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered t...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Israel's sad present condition. The voice of the remnant in the last days. CHARACTERS: God, Micah. CONCLUSION: When a child of God has much occasion to cry «Woe is me» when it seems that a...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Micah 7:1. _I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits._ “I am become as the gatherers of late figs, as the gleaners of the vintage.” NEWCOME. Micah 7:8. _Rejoice not against me, oh mine enemy:...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In the day that thy walls are to be built _ THE GOOD TIME COMING I. It will be a time for rebuilding the ruined. “In the day that thy walls are to be built.” The walls of Jerusalem are referred to-...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:11 Three activities of the future DAY bind these verses together. (1) BUILDING... WALLS. The enemy “now trampled” (v. Mi

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 7:11.] This confidence rises. DAY] Fences will be built up. DECREE] The law imposed upon Israel by heathens, some; others, the decree of God for her captivity. MICAH 7:12. THAT...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MICAH 7:1 § 5. _Israel's penitential acknowledgment of the general corruption._ MICAH 7:1 WOE IS ME! (Job 10:15). Micah threatens no more; he repre

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The prophet said, Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desires the first ripe fruit (Micah 7:1)...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 9:11; Daniel 9:25; Ezra 4:12; Nehemiah 2:17; Nehemiah 2:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thy walls — O Jerusalem. The decree — Of Artaxerxes, which forbad the re — building of the temple. Removed — Abolished....

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