Micah 3:1
Is it not for you — Ought not you to understand, and conform to, the just laws of your God. You princes, magistrates, and ruling officers, ought of all men to know and do right.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is it not for you — Ought not you to understand, and conform to, the just laws of your God. You princes, magistrates, and ruling officers, ought of all men to know and do right.... [ Continue Reading ]
The good — Ye who hate not only to do good, but the good which is done, and those that do it. The evil — Chuse, and delight in, both evil works and evil workers. Who pluck it off — Ye who use the flock as cruelly as the shepherd, who instead of shearing the fleece, would pluck off the skin and flesh... [ Continue Reading ]
The flesh — Ye who devour the goods, and livelihood of your brethren. Break their bones — An allusion to wolves, bears, or lions, which devour the flesh, and break the bones of the defenceless lambs.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then — When these miseries come upon them.... [ Continue Reading ]
That bite — When they are furnished with gifts, and well fed. Prepare war — They do them all the mischief they can.... [ Continue Reading ]
Night — Heavy calamities. A vision — You shall no more pretend to have a vision, or dare to foretell any thing. And the sun — The hand of God shall be against them, making their sorrows the more dreadful, as darkness by the sun going down at noon.... [ Continue Reading ]
The seers — So called by the deceived people. Cover their lips — Mourners did thus, Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:22. So these shall mourn and pine in their shame. No answer — Because the answer they had formerly, pretended to be from God, now appears not to have been from him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Power — Courage, and vivacity. Of judgment — To discern times and seasons, right from wrong. Might — Resolution.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — The heads and great ones enlarge, beautify, and fortify, the house in Zion, particularly the temple and the royal palace. Blood — With wealth, which they made themselves masters of by violence, taking away the life of the owners.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lean — Pretend to trust in him. Among us — As our God and our shield.... [ Continue Reading ]
For your sake — Because of your sins. The mountain — The mountain, on which the temple stood. This is that passage, which is quoted, Jeremiah 26:18, which Hezekiah and his princes took well: yea, they repented and so the execution of it did not come in their days.... [ Continue Reading ]