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Verse Micah 7:5. _TRUST YE NOT IN A FRIEND_] These times will be so
evil, and the people so wicked, that all _bonds_ will be _dissolved_;
and even the most intimate will betray each other, when they c...
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TRUST YE NOT IN A FRIEND - It is part of the perplexity of crooked
ways, that all relationships are put out of joint. Selfishness rends
each from the other, and disjoints the whole frame of society.
P...
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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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CONTEMPORARY VIOLENCE, CORRUPTION, AND DISLOYALTY. This passage is
distinct from the preceding, though the same introductory remark
applies to it; in tone, however, it seems to come nearer to certain...
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Here the prophet addresses the better disposed of his people.
Friendship and wedded love can no longer be trusted; natural affection
passes into its opposite. Comp. Matthew 10:21; Matthew 10:35-36 (a...
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Micah 7:1-6. These verses should be read in connexion with Chap. 6....
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_guide_ Rather, FAMILIAR FRIEND. The same mistake occurs in A. V. of
Psalms 55:13 (14 in the Hebrew)....
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_ISRAEL WAS VERY CORRUPT -- MICAH 7:1-7:_ The people of Israel were
incredibly wicked, but Micah still had strong confidence in God. He
was dreadfully sad with the conduct of God's people. He describe...
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MICAH LONGS FOR GODLINESS. Micah 7:1-6
RV. 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 desireth the fir...
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Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the
doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
TRUST YE NOT IN A FRIEND - faith is kept nowhere: all to a man are
treacher...
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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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GUIDE] RM 'familiar friend.'
6. The final proof of social corruption is the death of men's trust in
each other. See our Lord's adoption of these words (Matthew 10:36).
7-20. Everything seems lost but...
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There will be failure in the nation’s social relationships. It will
happen soon. Isaiah describes these events well (Isaiah 3:4-5). Micah
gives a list of the different relationships in society. They a...
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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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TRUST YE NOT... — All is now distrust and suspicion. The households
are divided each against itself, and the relationships which should
mean mutual confidence and support have become the occasion of t...
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אַל ־תַּאֲמִ֣ינוּ בְ רֵ֔עַ אַֽל
־תִּבְטְח֖וּ...
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THE SIN OF THE SCANT MEASURE
Micah 6:9; Micah 7:1
THE state of the text of Micah 6:9; Micah 7:1 is as confused as the
condition of society which it describ...
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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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Bosom. In times of general distress, even domestics are not trusted;
because all are solicitous for themselves, even to the prejudice of
others. (Worthington) --- Before the ruin of Israel civil wars...
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These are strong expressions, and if taken spiritually, are very much
to the purpose. What hath any man to trust in, but Jesus and his great
salvation?...
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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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The Prophet pursues the subject we discussed yesterday, — that
liberty, in iniquity, bad arrived to its highest point, for no
faithfulness remained among men; nay, there was no more any humanity;
for...
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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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TRUST YE NOT IN A FRIEND,.... This is not said to lessen the value of
friendship; or to discourage the cultivation of it with agreeable
persons; or to dissuade from a confidence in a real friend; or i...
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Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the
doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Ver. 5. _Trust ye not in a friend_] Friends (said Socrates), there is
no frie...
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_Trust ye not in a friend_ This and the next verse are descriptive of
a general corruption of manners; so that all ties and duties of
consanguinity were trampled upon, or paid no regard to. The friend...
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THE PRAYER OF REPENTANCE...
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Trust ye not in a friend, in any with whom one might daily associate,
PUT YE NOT CONFIDENCE IN A GUIDE, in a most intimate friend; KEEP THE
DOORS OF THY MOUTH FROM HER THAT LIETH IN THY BOSOM, for it...
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1-7 The prophet bemoans himself that he lived among a people ripening
apace for ruin, in which many good persons would suffer. Men had no
comfort, no satisfaction in their own families or in their ne...
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TRUST YE NOT IN A FRIEND: most prodigiously treacherous were the
people of that age, and since none upright, all lay in wait for blood,
and were turned hunters of brethren, it is but necessary caution...
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Micah 7:5 trust H539 (H8686) friend H7453 confidence H982 (H8799)
companion H441 Guard H8104 (H8798) doors...
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MICAH (OR THE RIGHTEOUS OF ISRAEL) BEWAILS THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
(MICAH 7:1).
Micah (or the righteous of Israel whom he represents) now describe(s)
the dreadful moral condition of his own peopl...
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TRUST
(_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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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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_The good man is perished out of the earth _
THE WAIL OF A TRUE PATRIOT OVER THE MORAL CORRUPTION OF HIS COUNTRY
He bemoans--
I. The departure of excellence from his country. “The good man is
perish...
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MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:4 DAY OF YOUR WATCHMEN. Just as the lookout on
the city wall warned of approaching danger, so Micah announced the
approaching judgment (compare Ezekiel 3:
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CRITICAL NOTES.
MICAH 7:3. EVIL] Lit. Their hands are for evil, that they may do it
_earnestly, i.e._ well, cleverly. GREAT] man. HE] Emphatic, expresses
_desire_, lit. _the_ lust of his soul. THEY]...
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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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Jeremiah 9:4; Job 6:14; Job 6:15; Judges 16:5; Matthew 10:16;...