They shall all cover their lips. — As the lepers, who were cut off from all communication with men, so also these false prophets, being cut off from all communion with God, were to “put a covering upon the upper lip.” It was also a sign of mourning for one dead, and Ezekiel was commanded to awaken the astonishment of the people by omitting to cover his upper lip when his wife died.
Verse Micah 3:7. _SHALL THE SEERS BE ASHAMED_] For the _false visions_ of comfort and prosperity which they pretended to see. _AND THE DIVINERS CONFOUNDED_] Who pretended to foretell future prosperit...
THEY SHALL COVER THEIR LIPS - Literally, the hair of the upper lip . This was an action enjoined on lepers Leviticus 13:45, and a token of mourning Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:22; a token then of
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)...
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...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
_THE SINS OF THE PROPHETS -- MICAH 3:5-8:_ The prophets declared peace when there was no peace. The very ones that should have helped the people walk with God caused them to err. These false prophets...
MERCENARY PROPHETS. Micah 3:5-8 RV. Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even...
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. THEN SHALL THE SEERS BE ASHAMED, AND THE DIVINERS CONFOUNDED; YEA,...
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...
COVER THEIR LIPS] a sign of mourning: cp. Leviticus 13:45; Ezekiel 24:17; Ezekiel 24:22. 8. Micah's ideal of the prophet's function, viz. to call sin by its right name. 10. i.e. they make the commo
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...
Some people try to know the future. They try to discover things that God has hidden from us. But God does not allow that. There are some things that God does not allow us to know about. Some people tr...
וּ בֹ֣שׁוּ הַ חֹזִ֗ים וְ חָֽפְרוּ֙ הַ
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...
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...
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...
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover (f) their lips; for [there is] no answer of God. (f) When God will reveal them to the world, they will be afrai...
But here we have the most awful account, when the ministers of God, or the pretenders to that ministry, are given up to a deluded mind. While the Lord keeps his sanctuary pure, and the streams unpollu...
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...
He confirms the same thing in the next verse, _And ashamed shall be the seers and confounded the diviners, _(102) _and they shall cover their lip; _that is they will put veils on their mouths. In shor...
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...
THEN SHALL THE SEERS BE ASHAMED, AND THE DIVINERS CONFOUNDED,.... When the events of things will make it most clearly appear to all that their visions, divinations, and prophecies, are false; they wil...
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for [there is] no answer of God. Ver. 7. _Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confoun...
_Therefore night shall be unto you_ Darkness, uncertainty, perplexity, and heavy troubles, shall be to you prophets; _that ye shall not have a vision_ You shall see your predictions so fully confuted,...
Then shall the seers be ashamed, be disgraced on account of the fact that their predictions are not fulfilled, AND THE DIVINERS CONFOUNDED, blushing with shame on account of their miserable failures i...
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...
LIPS: _ Heb._ upper lip...
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...
THEN; in the days of this calamity, which shall confute all the flattering promises of these prophets. THE SEERS, who called themselves, were accounted by others, and were advised with as men that had...
Micah 3:7 seers H2374 ashamed H954 (H8804) diviners H7080 (H8802) abashed H2659 (H8804) cover H5844 ...
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...
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...
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...
_Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make My people err _ FALSE PROPHETS Here the prophet attacks the false prophets, as before he had attacked the “princes. ” I. They are DECEIVING....
MICAH 3:1 The Present Injustice and the Future Prospect of Just Rule in Jerusalem. The second section focuses on the corrupt leadership in the house of Israel (Micah 3:1). Jerusalem’s restoration amon...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 3:6 NO ANSWER FROM GOD. God does not give his word to the false prophets. As with the civil leaders (v. Micah 3:4), God’s silence is part of their sentence.
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 3:5. PROPHETS] False prophets flatter and promise security from judgment. BITE] Like serpents; cry, PEACE] When they are doing mischief. PREPARE] Lit. “_sanctify war_ against hi...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 14:37; 1 Samuel 28:15; 1 Samuel 28:6; 1 Samuel 9:9; 2 Timot
The seers — So called by the deceived people. Cover their lips — Mourners did thus, Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:22. So these shall mourn and pine in their shame. No answer — Because the answer they had...