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Verse Micah 7:16. _THE NATIONS SHALL SEE AND BE CONFOUNDED_] Whether
the words in these verses (Micah 7:15) be applied to the return from
the Babylonish captivity, or to the prosperity of the Jews un...
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THE NATIONS SHALL SEE - God had answered, what He would give to His
own people, to see. Micah takes up the word, and says, what effect
this sight should have upon the enemies of God and of His people....
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CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The prophet's complaint (Micah 7:1) _
2. Confession, prayer and thanksgiving (Micah 7:7)
Micah 7:1. It is the prophet's voice complaining over the conditions
of the people. But he is...
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ISRAEL'S CONFESSION OF FAITH. This undoubtedly post-exilic utterance
of Israel's confidence _in._ Yahweh's delivering intervention falls
into three portions, probably once distinct, viz. Micah 7:7 (th...
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LAY THEIR HAND, &C Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct),
App-6, for silence, of which it was the token their ears. Some
codices, with four early printed and sign. See Job 21:5; Job 29:9; Jo...
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_MICAH'S PRAYER AND THE LORD'S ANSWER -- MICAH 7:14-17:_ Micah prayed
that God would rule and lead His people. He requested that God would
"let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old....
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THE NATIONS SHALL SEE— The prophet speaks here, to the end of the
chapter; foretelling the miracles of the rising church, and the pardon
of sins to be given by the Lord Jesus Christ. See Houbigant....
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THE PROPHET PRAYS FOR HIS PEOPLE. Micah 7:14-17
RV. Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which
dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed
in Bashan and G...
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The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they
shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
THE NATIONS SHALL SEE - the "marvelous things" (; , "Lord, when th...
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CONFESSION AND CONTRITION BRING BACK HOPE
1-6. Jerusalem laments her estate. The righteous among her children
are taken from her by violence (Micah 7:1). The rulers misuse their
position for their sel...
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CONFOUNDED] RV 'ashamed' to see how impotent is their might.
17. RV 'they shall come trembling out of their close places' (their
useless fortresses); 'they shall come with fear unto the Lord out
God....
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MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS
MICAH
_LES PAINTER_
CHAPTER 7
In this chapter, Micah continues to describe the situation in
Jerusalem. But in his vision (dream), Micah seems to...
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OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS
Micah 7:7
AFTER so stern a charge, so condign a sentence, confession is natural,
and, with prayer for forgiveness and praise to the mercy of God, it
fitly closes the whole book....
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GOD'S COMPASSION FOR AN ERRING PEOPLE
Micah 7:1-20
Things had come to an awful pass in the favored city. Oppression,
bribery, and bloodshed, were everywhere in the ascendant. Men wrought
evil with b...
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Following the charge, the people break into a lamentation which is of
the nature of a confession, submission to judgment and hope. The
prophet answers the cry with a message of hope, which, however, e...
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The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall
(p) lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, (q) their ears shall be deaf.
(p) They will be as dumb men, and dare brag no more.
(q)...
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CHAPTER VII.
_ Strength, because they cannot overcome the Hebrews or Christians.
(Menochius) --- Deaf, being astonished, Job xxi. 5._...
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Here seems to be a call to the great shepherd of Israel to regard his
fold, and that with peculiar manifestations of favor, because they are
dwelling in solitary places. Perhaps void of ordinances, an...
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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...
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Here again the Prophet shows, that though the Church should be
assailed on every side and surrounded by innumerable enemies, no doubt
ought yet to be entertained respecting the promised aid of God; fo...
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In chapter 7 the prophet takes the place of intercessor before God, in
the name of the people-presenting to Him at once their deep misery and
their iniquities [1] -speaking in their name, and identify...
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THE NATIONS SHALL SEE AND BE CONFOUNDED AT ALL THEIR MIGHT,.... The
Chaldeans or Babylonians, when they shall see the wonderful things
done by the Lord in the deliverance of his people out of their ha...
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The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall
lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
Ver. 16. _The nations shall see and be confounded_] Considering h...
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_According to the days of thy coming_ These words are an answer to the
prophet's prayer in the foregoing verse; wherein God tells him that
the wonders he will perform in bringing back his people into...
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The Prophet's Last Supplication...
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The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might, because
all their vaunted power would be as nothing in the sight of the
almighty God; THEY SHALL LAY THEIR HANDS UPON THEIR MOUTH, in revere...
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14-20 When God is about to deliver his people, he stirs up their
friends to pray for them. Apply spiritually the prophet's prayer to
Christ, to take care of his church, as the great Shepherd of the
s...
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THE NATIONS; the heathen, enemies to the Jews, as PSALMS 126:1. SHALL
SEE AND BE CONFOUNDED; amazed at what they see and know done amongst
these nations for the deliverance of his people. The enemy sh...
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Micah 7:16 nations H1471 see H7200 (H8799) ashamed H954 (H8799) might
H1369 put H7760 (H8799) hand...
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MICAH THEN OUTLINES WHAT THE EFFECT WILL BE ON THE NATIONS AS A RESULT
OF WHAT YHWH WILL DO (MICAH 7:16)
What YHWH will do will amaze the nations and will also make them
ashamed of their belligerence...
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The prophet begins in a sorrowful strain, and there is much that is
said in the chapter, yet there is also much of holy confidence in God.
Micah 7:1. _Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered t...
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CONTENTS: Israel's sad present condition. The voice of the remnant in
the last days.
CHARACTERS: God, Micah.
CONCLUSION: When a child of God has much occasion to cry «Woe is me»
when it seems that a...
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Micah 7:1. _I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits._ “I
am become as the gatherers of late figs, as the gleaners of the
vintage.” NEWCOME.
Micah 7:8. _Rejoice not against me, oh mine enemy:...
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MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:16 SEE AND BE ASHAMED. This describes what the
nations experience when they observe God’s power (compare v. Micah
7:10). the
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CRITICAL NOTES.
MICAH 7:14. FEED] Lit. rule; a prayer in the name of the people, to be
fed on the fruitful mountain-range (Carmel) of the western sea-coast
(Isaiah 10:18; Isaiah 37:24), and by Bashan...
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EXPOSITION
MICAH 7:1
§ 5. _Israel's penitential acknowledgment of the general corruption._
MICAH 7:1
WOE IS ME! (Job 10:15). Micah threatens no more; he repre
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The prophet said,
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as
the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my
soul desires the first ripe fruit (Micah 7:1)...
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Ezekiel 38:23; Ezekiel 39:17; Isaiah 26:11; Isaiah 52:15; Isaiah
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Shall be deaf — They shall neither care to hear, nor to speak of it....