For the son dishonoreth the father, openly despising him, the daughter riseth up against her mother, refusing her the love and honor which she owes, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, all the most sacred relationships being utterly broken down; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. Similar conditions preceded the fall of Jerusalem and will precede the end of the world. Cf Matthew 10:21.
Verse Micah 7:6. _FOR THE SON DISHONOURETH THE FATHER_] See the use our Lord has made of these words, where he quotes them, Matthew 10:21; Matthew 10:25;...
TRUST YE NOT IN A FRIEND - It is part of the perplexity of crooked ways, that all relationships are put out of joint. Selfishness rends each from the other, and disjoints the whole frame of society. P...
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...
CONTEMPORARY VIOLENCE, CORRUPTION, AND DISLOYALTY. This passage is distinct from the preceding, though the same introductory remark applies to it; in tone, however, it seems to come nearer to certain...
DISHONOURETH, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:12.Deuteronomy 5:16; Deuteronomy 5:16). App-92. MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'enosh._ App-14.
_dishonoureth_ Lit. -treateth as a fool." The same verb in the same form occurs in Deuteronomy 32:6. It is unsafe however to argue that Deuteronomy must have been already written in the time of Micah,...
Here the prophet addresses the better disposed of his people. Friendship and wedded love can no longer be trusted; natural affection passes into its opposite. Comp. Matthew 10:21; Matthew 10:35-36 (a...
Micah 7:1-6. These verses should be read in connexion with Chap. 6....
_ISRAEL WAS VERY CORRUPT -- MICAH 7:1-7:_ The people of Israel were incredibly wicked, but Micah still had strong confidence in God. He was dreadfully sad with the conduct of God's people. He describe...
MICAH LONGS FOR GODLINESS. Micah 7:1-6 RV. 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 desireth the fir...
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house. FOR THE SON DISHONOURETH...
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...
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...
There will be failure in the nation’s social relationships. It will happen soon. Isaiah describes these events well (Isaiah 3:4-5). Micah gives a list of the different relationships in society. They a...
TRUST YE NOT... — All is now distrust and suspicion. The households are divided each against itself, and the relationships which should mean mutual confidence and support have become the occasion of t...
כִּֽי ־בֵן֙ מְנַבֵּ֣ל אָ֔ב בַּ֚ת קָמָ֣ה בְ
THE SIN OF THE SCANT MEASURE Micah 6:9; Micah 7:1 THE state of the text of Micah 6:9; Micah 7:1 is as confused as the condition of society which it describ...
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...
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...
These are strong expressions, and if taken spiritually, are very much to the purpose. What hath any man to trust in, but Jesus and his great salvation?...
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...
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...
FOR THE SON DISHONOURETH THE FATHER,.... Speaks contemptibly of him; behaves rudely towards him; shows him no respect and reverence; exposes his failings, and makes him the object of his banter and ri...
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies [are] the men of his own house. Ver. 6. _For the son dis...
_Trust ye not in a friend_ This and the next verse are descriptive of a general corruption of manners; so that all ties and duties of consanguinity were trampled upon, or paid no regard to. The friend...
1-7 The prophet bemoans himself that he lived among a people ripening apace for ruin, in which many good persons would suffer. Men had no comfort, no satisfaction in their own families or in their ne...
FOR: the prophet here gives us a reason of his advice to be wary how and whom they trust. THE SON; who received his being, maintenance, education, and inherits the honour as well as estate of his fath...
Micah 7:6 son H1121 dishonors H5034 (H8764) father H1 Daughter H1323 rises H6965 (H8801) mother H517 Daughter-in-law...
MICAH (OR THE RIGHTEOUS OF ISRAEL) BEWAILS THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE (MICAH 7:1). Micah (or the righteous of Israel whom he represents) now describe(s) the dreadful moral condition of his own peopl...
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...
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...
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 good man is perished out of the earth _ THE WAIL OF A TRUE PATRIOT OVER THE MORAL CORRUPTION OF HIS COUNTRY He bemoans-- I. The departure of excellence from his country. “The good man is perish...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:4 DAY OF YOUR WATCHMEN. Just as the lookout on the city wall warned of approaching danger, so Micah announced the approaching judgment (compare Ezekiel 3:
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 7:3. EVIL] Lit. Their hands are for evil, that they may do it _earnestly, i.e._ well, cleverly. GREAT] man. HE] Emphatic, expresses _desire_, lit. _the_ lust of his soul. THEY]...
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
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)...
2 Samuel 15:10; 2 Samuel 16:11; 2 Samuel 16:21; 2 Timothy 3:2;...