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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 2:7

Is the spirit of the Lord straitened? — In this verse the prophet expostulates with the people who are the people of the Lord, the house of Jacob, in name only. The Spirit of the Lord, who changeth not, is still the same towards them. They brought their sufferings on themselves; those who put away their shame, and walk uprightly, shall receive benefit from the prophet’s words.

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See also Micah 2:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Micah 2:7. _IS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD STRAITENED?_] This is the complaint of the Israelites, and a part of the lamentation. Doth it not speak by other persons as well as by Micah? Doth it commu...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    O THOU THAT ART NAMED THE HOUSE OF JACOB - As Isaiah says, “Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel - which make mention of the God of Israel, not in truth, nor in right...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The guilt and punishment of Israel (Micah 2:1) _ 2. The future restoration (Micah 2:12) Micah 2:1. In the first two verses the special sins of Israel are mentioned, the same as in Amo...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND ITS PENALTY. The prophet denounces those for whom might is right (Psalms 36:4; and work evil seems a thoughtless scribal addition), who acquire property by illegal or inequitable...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    JACOB. See notes on Genesis 32:28; Genesis 43:6; Genesis 45:26; Genesis 45:28. IS THE SPIRIT, &C. ? Reference to Pentateuch ...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _A REBUKE FOR SIN -- MICAH 2:6-11:_ The people did not like to hear God's prophet giving such unpleasant predictions. They said to the man of God, "Do not preach, say the prophesying false prophets; o...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1204 BENEFITS ARISING FROM THE WORD OF GOD Micah 2:7. _Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?_ GREAT and bitter prejudices are often entertained against the word of God; as...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    PROPHESY YE NOT, &C.— _Prophesy ye not:—Yet they will prophesy. At least prophesy not these things: The boundaries of the kingdom shall not be removed,_ Micah 2:7. _For thus saith the house of Jacob,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE PROPHET ACCUSED AS AN ENEMY. Micah 2:6-7(a) RV. Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches shall not depart. Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spiri...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE PROPHET ANSWERS HIS CRITICS. Micah 2:7(b)-11 RV. Do not _my_ words do good to him that walketh uprightly? But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? O THOU THAT ART NAMED THE HOUSE OF JACO...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:7 impatient? (x-12) Or 'Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened?' to (y-23) Lit. 'with.' (z-0) This note set is not public domain....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SINS THAT BRING RUIN Micah 2:3, as dealing with the same subject, should be read together. Micah now enumerates the sins which must bring punishment on Judah. He inveighs bitterly against the rap...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 2 2:1-11 EVIL LEADERS AND FALSE *PROPHETS WILL SUFFER v1 Trouble will come to people that plot evil things. Those...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    In Micah’s book, ‘Jacob’ refers to all *Israel. (Look at Micah 3:1.) The people were probably thinking about a verse from Exodus. ‘The *LORD is kind and gentle. He does not get angry quickly. He does...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֶ אָמ֣וּר בֵּֽית ־יַעֲקֹ֗ב הֲ קָצַר֙ ר֣וּחַ

  • 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 HARVEST OF GREED AND INJUSTICE Micah 2:1-13 Micah 1:1-16 dealt with sins against the _first_ table of the law; this deals with those against the _second_. Evil must sooner or later befall those w...

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

    Following this the prophet states the cause of the imminent judgment. The sin consists in devising evil at night and practicing it in the morning, and the abuse of authority. Covetousness, expressing...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? (f) [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him (g) that walketh uprightly? (f) Are these your works accor...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Straitened. Is he inclined to danger? The prophet replies, if God punishes, it is because the people will not repent. (Calmet) --- His mercy is extended to penitents, as well as to the just. (Worthin...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Do not forget, Reader, nor overlook the sweet feature of grace here appearing. Though unworthy, degenerate, and fallen, still Jacob is reminded of his name, and called upon to recollect, that Him with...

  • 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 now reproves the Israelites with greater severity, because they attempted to impose a law on God and on his prophets and would not endure the free course of instruction. He told us in the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 2 the prophet points out the moral causes of the judgment of God-violence and shameless oppression. They formed plans of violence to gratify their covetousness, and Jehovah formed also plan...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    O [THOU THAT ART] NAMED THE HOUSE OF JACOB,.... Called after that great and good man, and reckoned the people of God, and have the character of being religious persons; but, alas! have but a name, and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? [are] these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? Ver. 7. _O thou that art named the hou...

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

    _O thou that art named The house of Jacob_ But dost not act suitably to the piety of thy father Jacob, and therefore, though thou art in name, yet not in truth the genuine seed of Jacob. _Is the Spiri...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Expulsion of the Leaders and Restoration Of The Lord's People...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    O thou that art named the house of Jacob, the people who still considered themselves the covenant nation, IS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD STRAITENED, impatient? Did He not exercise patience and long-sufferi...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    STRAIGHTENED: Or, shortened UPRIGHTLY?: _ Heb._ upright...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-11 Since they say, "Prophesy not," God will take them at their word, and their sin shall be their punishment. Let the physician no longer attend the patient that will not be healed. Those are enemi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    NAMED; you are in name, not in truth, you call yourselves, and would be called by others, the seed and posterity of Jacob. THE HOUSE OF JACOB; you glory in Jacob, whom God blessed, guided, and preserv...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Micah 2:7 named H559 (H8803) house H1004 Jacob H3290 Spirit H7307 LORD H3068 restricted H7114 (H8804) doings...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SINS WHICH HAVE BROUGHT JUDAH'S CALAMITY ON IT (MICAH 2:1). These prophecies would have been spoken well before the scenes previously depicted, which from the point of view of this chapter are st...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Micah 2:7 I. Consider the promise of the Pentecost. There was (i) the promise of a Divine Spirit by symbols which express some, at all events, of the characteristics and wonderfulness of His work. The...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel, continued. Future deliverance of a remnant. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: Sinners cannot expect to rest in a land which they have polluted by the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Micah 2:1. _Woe to them that devise iniquity they covet fields, and take them by violence._ The jubilee was the happiest law that ever favoured a nation; but the rabbins confess that before the captiv...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the Lord straitened?_ THE CRIMINALITY AND FOLLY OF LIMITING THE HOLY SPIRIT 1. Amongst the numerous instances in which Christians conduct...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 2:7 The people thought that a God of grace could never bring the disaster mentioned in vv. Micah 2:3....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 2:6. PROPHESY] Lit. to drip, to cause words to flow, prophesying (Amos 7:16). “The people, the false prophets, the politicians, forbade God and Micah to prophesy. PROPHESY NOT]...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MICAH 2:1 § 6. _The prophet justifies his threat by recounting the sins of which the grandees and guilty._ MICAH 2:1 The prophet, himself one of the people, first inveighs against the si...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now God is giving here His continued indictment against Israel and He said, Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it ha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 6:12; 2 Timothy 3:5; Hosea 14:9; Isaiah 48:1; Isaiah 48:2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    That art named — You are in name, not in truth, the seed of Jacob. Straitened — The power, wisdom, and kindness of God is not less now than formerly. Are these — Are these severe proceedings the doing...

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