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Micah 3:4

MICAH—NOTE ON Micah 3:4 he will not answer... he will hide his face. As part of their fair sentence, those who would not hear the cries of the people will now find that God will not hear them.

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See also Micah 3:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Micah 3:4. _THEN SHALL THEY CRY_] When calamity comes upon these oppressors, they shall cry for deliverance: but _they shall not be_ _heard_; because, in their unjust exactions upon the people,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN SHALL THEY CRY UNTO THE LORD - “Then.” The prophet looks on to the Day of the Lord, which is always before his mind. So the Psalmist, speaking of a time or place not expressed, says, “There were...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE SECOND PROPHETIC MESSAGE CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Address to the godless princes and judges (Micah 3:1) _ 2. Address to the false prophets (Micah 3:5) 3. The verdict of judgment (Micah 3:9)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE UNJUST RULERS AND FALSE PROPHETS OF JUDAH. Micah first addresses those whose official duty it is to know justice, _i.e._ sympathetically, and declares that in fact they love its opposite, and crue...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. HEAR. answer. HIDE HIS FACE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 32:20). App-92. Compare Isaiah 59:1.

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE SINS OF THE PRINCES -- MICAH 3:1-4:_ In a simple, but very sad statement God said, "They love evil and hate good."_ _ Micah encouraged the leaders to listen to God. The princes were unjust and go...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER VIII THIRD CYCLE OUTRAGES OF CIVIL OFFICIALS. Micah 3:1-4 RV. And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not for you to know justice? ye who ha...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. THEN - at the time of judgment...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES Micah returns to his indictment against the people's leaders. Their power was given for the sake of justice, and they have abused it for extortion (Micah 3:1). Their time sha...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 3 SECTION 2 3:1-5:15 MICAH ACCUSES FALSE LEADERS. HE PROMISES THAT A GOOD, FAIR KING WILL COME 3:1-12 THE FALSE LEA...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    These rulers have hated good things and they have loved evil things. This has happened for a long time. They are now asking God for help in their troubles. Probably they have often met to pray to God....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN SHALL THEY CRY. — “Then” — _i.e.,_ in the day of retribution — “then shall they call upon me, saith the Lord, but I will not hear; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me; and that b...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אָ֚ז יִזְעֲק֣וּ אֶל ־יְהוָ֔ה וְ לֹ֥א יַעֲנֶ֖ה

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE PROPHET OF THE POOR Micah 2:1; Micah 3:1 WE have proved Micah's love for his countryside in the effusion of his heart upon her villages with a grief for their danger greater than his grief for Je...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE PUNISHMENT OF AVARICE Micah 3:1-12 The princes who as magistrates should have administered justice to others sat around the caldron, casting in the very flesh and skin of the people whom they wer...

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

    Addressing himself directly to the rulers of the people, in this second message the prophet describes their peculiar sin, and announces the coming judgment. He then foretells the coming of the one tru...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then (c) shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. (c) That is, when I will punis...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It must have been a sad day with the Church, and indeed the history of those times proves it was, when it was as with the priest, so with the people. A state of general corruption prevailed. Isaiah th...

  • 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

    Micah now denounces judgment on the chief men, such as they deserved. He says, _They shall cry then to Jehovah _The adverb אז, _az, _is often put indefinitely in Hebrew, and has the force of a demonst...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The prophet again denounces the heads and princes of Jacob. They should cry unto Jehovah. But He would not hear them. No prophet should enlighten them with the light of His word. The seers should be c...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SHALL THEY CRY UNTO THE LORD, BUT HE WILL NOT HEAR THEM,.... When all the above evils threatened them in the preceding Chapter s shall come upon them; when the enemy shall invade their hind, besi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. Ver. 4. _Then shall they cry unto...

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

    _Hear, O heads of Jacob_, &c. That the justice of God, in bringing upon them the punishments which he had threatened, might more evidently appear, the prophet here shows that there was no rank of them...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SINS OF THE RULERS AND THE DESOLATION OF ZION. Also in this Chapter the discourse is directed to the nobility of the people, who abused the authority of their high official station by oppressing...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then shall they, the guilty ones, CRY UNTO THE LORD, BUT HE WILL NOT HEAR THEM, namely, at the time of the revelation of His wrath; HE WILL EVEN HIDE HIS FACE FROM THEM AT THAT TIME, refusing to pay t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Men cannot expect to do ill, and fare well; but to find that done to them which they did to others. How seldom do wholesome truths reach the ears of those in high stations or in authority! Those...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEN; when that time and those miseries which Micah foretells shall come upon them, MICAH 1:6 2:3, when God shall retaliate and pay these great ones in their own coin. They; the cruel oppressors, thes...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Micah 3:4 cry H2199 (H8799) LORD H3068 hear H6030 (H8799) hide H5641 (H8686) face H6440 time...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    MICAH'S INDICTMENT OF JUDAH (MICAH 3:1). Micah inveighs first against the leadership of Judah, and then against the prophets who make people err for the sake of money, and the priests who teach for hi...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Coming judgments of the captivities. The priests and prophets rebuked. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, princes, prophets. CONCLUSION: Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well simply because...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Micah 3:10. _They build up Zion with blood._ The Chaldaic reads, they build up the houses of Zion with blood. They oppress the poor to a premature death, in order to build their town and country house...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel _ CIVIL RULERS I. What civil rulers ought always to be. They ought always to “know judgment,” that is, always practically t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Punishment is threatened against the heads and leaders of Israel. MICAH 3:1. PRINCES] Administrators of justice. YOU] Above every one. TO KNOW] To regard justice (Isaiah 42:25). Mica...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION VERSE 3:1-5:15 Part II. DENUNCIATION OF THE CRIMES OF THE GRANDEES, FOLLOWED BY A PROMISE OF THE GLORIFICATION OF ZION, THE BIRTH...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now the Lord speaks of the coming judgment that is going to come against those that have gone into captivity. And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 31:18; Deuteronomy 32:19; Deuteronomy 32:20;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Then — When these miseries come upon them....

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Does God ever withhold His blessing from those who cry out for it? PROBLEM: This text and other passages of Scripture (cf. Isaiah 1:15; James 4:3) speak of God withholding His blessing from those who...

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