Micah 7:10

Then; in the time of this hoped deliverance, when God shall, as I expect he will, plead my cause. Mine enemy; what nation or people soever, whether Assyria, Edom, or Babylon, or whoever. Shall see; as they did when Hezekiah was miraculously saved, and Jerusalem with him, out of the hand of the Assyrian, and as in the return out of Babylon, when the heathen said among themselves, The Lord hath done great things for them, Psalms 126:2. Shame, reproach and confusion, self-condemning reflections, shall cover her; shall on all sides be cast upon her for her pride, cruelty, and inhumanity against the Israel of God. Which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? which with insulting pride and atheism derided my faith and my God. So the heathen either denied the omnipresence and omnipotence of the true God, or preferred their idols above him, and as if he had been a conquered and captived God, as well as his people were a captive people. So Psalms 115:2 Joel 2:17. Mine eyes: the church speaketh assured of the truth of God's avenging her upon her enemies. Shall behold her; with delight, or well-pleasedness, the people of God shall see their enemies laid as low for their cruelty against them, as ever God suffered the enemy to lay his people low for their sins against him and his mercies. See the like expression, Psalms 59:10 Micah 4:11. Now shall she; either shortly she shall; or else, when that time of full deliverance is come, the church shall in that day rejoice in her God, and say Now. Be trodden down as the mire of the streets; be accounted and used as most contemptible and useless, the conquering enemy shall then tread the Babylonians in the dirt, and use them despitefully, and without more regard than that we have for the dirt under our feet; and this was accomplished by the Medes and Persians in their conquest of Babylon. Then; in the time of this hoped deliverance, when God shall, as I expect he will, plead my cause. Mine enemy; what nation or people soever, whether Assyria, Edom, or Babylon, or whoever. Shall see; as they did when Hezekiah was miraculously saved, and Jerusalem with him, out of the hand of the Assyrian, and as in the return out of Babylon, when the heathen said among themselves, The Lord hath done great things for them, Psalms 126:2. Shame, reproach and confusion, self-condemning reflections, shall cover her; shall on all sides be cast upon her for her pride, cruelty, and inhumanity against the Israel of God. Which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? which with insulting pride and atheism derided my faith and my God. So the heathen either denied the omnipresence and omnipotence of the true God, or preferred their idols above him, and as if he had been a conquered and captived God, as well as his people were a captive people. So Psalms 115:2 Joel 2:17. Mine eyes: the church speaketh assured of the truth of God's avenging her upon her enemies. Shall behold her; with delight, or well-pleasedness, the people of God shall see their enemies laid as low for their cruelty against them, as ever God suffered the enemy to lay his people low for their sins against him and his mercies. See the like expression, Psalms 59:10 Micah 4:11. Now shall she; either shortly she shall; or else, when that time of full deliverance is come, the church shall in that day rejoice in her God, and say Now. Be trodden down as the mire of the streets; be accounted and used as most contemptible and useless, the conquering enemy shall then tread the Babylonians in the dirt, and use them despitefully, and without more regard than that we have for the dirt under our feet; and this was accomplished by the Medes and Persians in their conquest of Babylon.