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Verse Micah 7:11. In _THE DAY THAT THY WALLS ARE TO BE BUILT_] This
refers to _Jerusalem_; the _decree_, to the purpose of God to deliver
the people into captivity. "This shall be far removed." God h...
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On this confession of unworthiness and trust the message of joy bursts
in, with the abruptness and conciseness of Hosea or Nahum:
A day to build thy fences; (that is, cometh;)
That day, far shall be...
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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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DECREE. prescribed limit or boundary. So the Oxford _Gesenius,_ p.
349. Compare Job 26:10; Job 38:10; Proverbs 8:29; Isaiah 24:5.
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Here the soliloquy of believing and repentant Israel ceases, and a
prophetic announcement begins.
_In the day that thy walls_ Rather, THERE COMETH A DAY TO BUILD THY
WALLS. The image is that of a vin...
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_ISRAEL TURNED BACK TO GOD -- MICAH 7:8-13:_ The nation of Israel had
fallen exceedingly low. After a time of repentance and spiritual
growth God would raise them up again. Things might have been dark...
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IN THE DAY, &C.— _In the day that thy walls shall be rebuilt, that
day shall remove from thee the decree_ or _judgment;_ that is to say,
thine established laws; the laws of thy kingdom and temple. Tha...
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THE PROPHET LOOKS TO GOD. Micah 7:7-13
RV. But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God
of my salvation: my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine
enemy: when I fall, I s...
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In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the
decree be far removed.
IN THE DAY THAT THY WALLS ARE TO BE BUILT - under Cyrus, after the 70
years' captivity; and again, hereafter...
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7:11 limit (a-16) Or 'bound.'...
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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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Micah has spoken about his belief in God. He now speaks a message
about hope. This part of the song has two sections. First, the other
nations will enter inside the walls of Jerusalem (verses 11-12)....
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IN THAT DAY SHALL THE DECREE BE FAR REMOVED. — The “decree” was
something “definite,” as an appointed law or statute, and this
should be far removed. Some interpret this prophecy to mean the
removal o...
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יֹ֖ום לִ בְנֹ֣ות גְּדֵרָ֑יִךְ יֹ֥ום
הַ ה֖וּא
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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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[In] (i) the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day shall
(k) the decree be far removed.
(i) That is, when God will show himself to be a deliverer of his
Church, and a destroyer of his ene...
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_Law of thy enemies, who have tyrannized over thee. (Challoner) ---
The walls of Jerusalem are ordered to be rebuilt, Aggeus i._...
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Reader! it is truly blessed when a child of God can thus look at every
foe and triumph in Christ. Times of darkness are times for faith to be
in lively exercise. It is of no real consequence in what s...
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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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Micah pursues the subject on which he had previously spoken, — that
though the Church thought itself for a time to be wholly lost, yet God
would become its deliverer. He says first, _that the day was...
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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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[IN] THE DAY THAT THY WALLS ARE TO BE BUILT,.... These words are not
spoken to the enemy, as some think; either the Chaldeans, the walls of
whose city, Babylon, being demolished by the Persians, it wo...
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Micah 7:11 [In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day
shall the decree be far removed.
Ver. 11. _In the day that thy walls are to be built_] In the type, by
Nehemiah, Nehemiah 3:1,32,...
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_Then she that is mine enemy_ Namely, the Chaldean nation. _Which said
unto me_, (namely, when she held me captive,) _Where is the Lord thy
God?_ Where is now Jehovah, whom thou worshippest, and sayes...
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In the day that thy walls are to be built, rather, "a day of building
thy walls" (is coming), so the prophet assures the believing members
of His people, those who were truly awaiting the Messiah's co...
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THE PRAYER OF REPENTANCE...
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8-13 Those truly penitent for sin, will see great reason to be
patient under affliction. When we complain to the Lord of the badness
of the times, we ought to complain against ourselves for the badne...
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These words are variously expounded, but the plainest and most suiting
with the letter and history to me seems to be this: IN THE DAY THAT
THY WALLS ARE TO BE BUILT; O Jerusalem, the days shall certai...
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Micah 7:11 day H3117 walls H1447 built H1129 (H8800) day H3117 decree
H2706 wide H7368 (H8799)
the day -
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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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_In the day that thy walls are to be built _
THE GOOD TIME COMING
I. It will be a time for rebuilding the ruined. “In the day that thy
walls are to be built.” The walls of Jerusalem are referred to-...
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MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:11 Three activities of the future DAY bind
these verses together. (1) BUILDING... WALLS. The enemy “now
trampled” (v. Mi
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CRITICAL NOTES.
MICAH 7:11.] This confidence rises. DAY] Fences will be built up.
DECREE] The law imposed upon Israel by heathens, some; others, the
decree of God for her captivity.
MICAH 7:12. THAT...
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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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Amos 9:11; Daniel 9:25; Ezra 4:12; Nehemiah 2:17; Nehemiah 2:8;...
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Thy walls — O Jerusalem. The decree — Of Artaxerxes, which forbad
the re — building of the temple. Removed — Abolished....