Micah 1:9

her wound Lit. her stripes. Samaria's trouble is a chastisement (comp. Isaiah 1:3-4), but it is not Samaria's trouble only. It has reached Jerusalem; hence the -incurableness" of the -wound," for Jerusalem is the heart of the nation. The past tenses vividly express the certainty of the prophet's intuition of the future.

he is come Or, it is come. The subject may be either the -stripe" or the dealer of the stripe Jehovah.

the gate of my people Jerusalem is to the chosen people in general what the gate is to the city itself. The shady space in the city gate was the favourite place of meeting; so Jerusalem is the scene of -our solemn meetings" (Isaiah 33:20), our religious and political centre.