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Micah 1:8

MICAH—NOTE ON Micah 1:8 go stripped and naked. Wearing sackcloth (Genesis 37:34) and covering one’s head (2 Samuel 15:30) usually signified mourning. This may be a more intense mourning, or else an image of going into exile (compare Isaiah 20:3). jackals... ostriches. Judah is pictured as a land destroyed (Isaiah 34:13; Jeremiah 50:39).

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See also Micah 1:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 8. _I WILL MAKE A WAILING LIKE THE DRAGONS_] _Newcome_ translates: - I will make a wailing like the foxes, (or jackals,) And mourning like the daughters of the ostrich. This beast, the _jacka...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE I WILL - Therefore I would WAIL - (properly, beat, that is, on the breast). AND HOWL - “Let me alone,” he would say, “that I may vent my sorrow in all ways of expressing sorrow, beating on...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATION THE FIRST PROPHETIC MESSAGE CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Micah 1:1) _ 2. Judgment announced (Micah 1:2) 3. The destruction of Samaria (Micah 1:6) 4. The lamentation o...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JUDGMENT OF ISRAEL. The nations of the earth are summoned to take warning from the Divine judgment to be executed on Israel. Yahweh comes forth from heaven (His holy temple; _cf._ Habakkuk 2:20; I...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WAIL. lament. Compare the Structure above; and note weight of the prophetic "burden". DRAGONS. jackals. OWLS. Hebrew daughters of. doleful cry....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Micah's Lamentation 8. _Therefore I will wail_ Such exuberance of emotion specially characterizes the Jews and the Arabs; it reminds us of the Homeric heroes. The prophets did not cease to be men when...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _MICAH WEPT OVER GOD'S JUDGMENT -- MICAH 1:8-12_ : Samaria's wickedness had spread even to Jerusalem. It was so heart breaking to Micah that he said, "I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and vi...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I WILL WAIL AND HOWL— "I will sympathize with my countrymen in their calamities; I will dress myself in the habit of mourning, and, like those who bewail the dead, go without my upper garment; in orde...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SAMARIA TO BE DESTROYED. Micah 1:6-11 RV. Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I wil...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. THEREFORE I WILL WAIL. The prophet first shows how the coming judgme...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:8 stripped (a-13) Or 'barefooted.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    STRIPPED AND NAKED] i.e. without the outer garment (cp. 1 Samuel 19:24); here used as a sign of mourning. DRAGONS] RV 'jackals.' OWLS] RV 'ostriches.' As a patriot Micah laments the calamities he pred...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGMENT ON SAMARIA AND JUDAH Sargon destroyed Samaria, the capital of North Israel, 722 or 721. Micah, about 720 b.c., declaring (Micah 1:6) that Samaria's fall has been due to its sin, announces a l...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Micah weeps as he speaks God’s judgement. He feels as God feels. Micah has seen what will happen to Samaria. He knows that the situation is hopeless. There is no remedy for Samaria’s problems. God’s j...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF MICAH ‘_People, the *LORD told you what goodness is. This is what the *LORD wants you to do. Be fair to ot...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DRAGONS... OWLS. — Literally, _jackals and ostriches._ They are selected by reason of the dismal howls and screeches they make during the night....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עַל ־זֹאת֙ אֶסְפְּדָ֣ה וְ אֵילִ֔ילָה אֵילְכָ֥ה _שֹׁולָ֖ל_

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    MICAH THE MORASTHITE Micah 1:1 SOME time in the reign of Hezekiah, when the kingdom of Judah was still inviolate, but shivering to the shock of the fall of Samaria, and probably while Sargon the dest...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S WITNESS AGAINST HIS CHOSEN Micah 1:1-16 Micah was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea. Jeremiah quotes from him. Compare Micah 3:12 and Jeremiah 26:18. In Micah 1:1-4 the prophet _summons the n...

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

    The first message of Micah consists of a summons, a proclamation of Jehovah, and a prophetic message based on the proclamation. This division ends with an account of the intenuption of the false proph...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Naked. Ill clothed, (Haydock) to shew the approaching calamity of the Israelites, Isaias xx. (Menochius) --- Septuagint and Chaldean explain all of the people, (Calmet) or of Samaria. "Therefore shall...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is a great sameness between the writings of Isaiah and Micah; their vision opens much alike, only Micah's vision is concerning Samaria and Jerusalem; and Isaiah's of Judah and Jerusalem. Samaria...

  • 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

    The Prophet here assumes the character of a mourner, that he might more deeply impress the Israelites; for we have seen that they were almost insensible in their torpidity. It was therefore necessary...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Lord speaks in this book from His temple, and addresses all the peoples-the whole earth. That is to say, He takes His place upon His earthly throne to judge the whole earth, in testimony against a...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE I WILL WAIL AND HOWL, I WILL GO STRIPPED AND NAKED,.... To his shut, putting off his upper garment; the rough one, such as the prophets used to wear; which he did as the greater sign of his...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls._ Ver. 8. _Therefore I will wail and howl_] Good men are usually more d...

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

    _Therefore I will wail and howl_ I will mourn and lament. _I will go stripped and naked_ That is, without an upper garment; or with garments rent and torn. This would fitly denote the naked condition...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Lamentation Over Judah's Chastisement...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore, on account of the calamity which would strike Samaria and Judah, I WILL WAIL AND HOWL, in a most bitter and mournful cry, I WILL GO STRIPPED AND NAKED, robbed by the enemies and deprived of...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    OWLS: _ Heb._ daughters of the owl...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-16 The prophet laments that Israel's case is desperate; but declare it not in Gath. Gratify not those that make merry with the sins or with the sorrows of God's Israel. Roll thyself in the dust, as...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEREFORE, because of those dreadful slaughters and devastations made in Israel and Samaria, I WILL WAIL, solemnly, as when they who are skilful in lamentation do at funerals bewail in most affective...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Micah 1:8 wail H5594 (H8799) howl H3213 (H8686) go H3212 (H8799) stripped H7758 (H8675) H7

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel. Impending judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Micah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: There comes a time when men who have persisted in sin must face ruin without...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Micah 1:1. _Micah the Morasthite,_ alluding to a village in the tribe of Judah, near the city of Eleuthera, which distinguishes him from the prophet Micaiah, who foretold the defeat of Ahab. 1 Kings 2...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For her wound is incurable _ MORAL INCURABLENESS Samaria and Jerusalem were, in a material and political sense, in a desperate and hopeless condition. I. Moral incurableness is a condition into wh...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 1:3. TREAD upon the proud and idolatrous (high places) people, as Ruler over all the earth. MICAH 1:4.] Imagery from storms and earthquakes, to describe the terrors of God’s jud...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 1:1-2:13 Part I. THREATENINGS AND JUDGMENTS ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH, WITH PREDICTION OF EVENTUAL DELIVERANCE. MICAH 1:1 The...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to the book of Micah. As is the very typical opening of most of the books of the prophets, The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and He...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 16:9; Isaiah 20:2; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 4:19;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Therefore — Because of those dreadful slaughters in Israel and Samaria. And naked — As one that in bitterness of passion hath cast off his upper garment. Dragons — Or rather, Jackals, which haunt deso...

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