I will bear. — Micah places himself and his people with confidence in the hands of God. So, too, id David speak when his sin was brought home to him by God: “I am in a great strait; let us fall now into the hand of the Lord: for His mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man” (2 Samuel 24:14). “This is the temper of all penitents when stricken by God, or under chastisement from Him.”
Verse 9. _I WILL BEAR THE INDIGNATION OF THE LORD_] The words of the penitent captives, acknowledging their sins and praying for mercy. _UNTIL HE PLEAD MY CAUSE_] And wo to the _slanderers_, when God...
I WILL BEAR THE INDIGNATION OF THE LORD, BECAUSE I HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM - This is the temper of all penitents, when stricken by God, or under chastisement from Him. “It is the Lord, let Him, do wha...
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...
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...
INDIGNATION. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the punishment which was the result of it. SINNED. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. BEHOLD. look unto. HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS: i.e. His ri...
_I will bear the indignation_ The speaker is sure that Jehovah is still his God; consequently in wrath He will still remember mercy, and will, in His own good time, remove the rod. _I have sinned aga...
_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...
DISCOURSE: 1215 ADDRESS OF THE JEWISH CHURCH TO HER ENEMIES Micah 7:8. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I wi...
BECAUSE I HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM— _Because I am about to be his victim,_ or _sacrifice for sin._ Nothing is more common in the sacred Scripture, than to denote the _expiation of sin_ by the word חטא...
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...
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteous...
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...
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...
The words ‘I’ and ‘me’ here refer to the people in Jerusalem. In the *Hebrew language, those words are female. That is because the name ‘Jerusalem’ is female in that language. Therefore it is as if Je...
זַ֤עַף יְהוָה֙ אֶשָּׂ֔א כִּ֥י חָטָ֖אתִי לֹ֑ו...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
_LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS_ ‘Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because...
Here the Church of God animates and encourages herself to exercise patience, and does so especially by two arguments. She first sets before herself her sins, and thus humbles herself before God, whom...
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...
I WILL BEAR THE INDIGNATION OF THE LORD,.... The Targum prefaces these words with "Jerusalem saith;'' and they are the words of the prophet, in the name of Jerusalem or the church, resolving in the...
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteou...
_Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy_ Here begins a new subject; the Jewish nation in general being here introduced speaking in their captivity, and addressing themselves to the Chaldeans. _When I fa...
THE PRAYER OF REPENTANCE...
I will bear the indignation of the Lord, with the humble submission which characterizes the repentant heart, BECAUSE I HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM, such a free and unequivocal confession being essential i...
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...
I WILL BEAR, patiently and submissively, the indignation of the Lord; the just and chastising anger of the Lord, in the effects of it upon me. BECAUSE I HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM, greatly, continually,...
Micah 7:9 bear H5375 (H8799) indignation H2197 LORD H3068 sinned H2398 (H8804) pleads H7378 (H8799) case...
THE RIGHTEOUS OF ISRAEL ARE HOWEVER CONFIDENT THAT IN ALL THIS YHWH WILL BE WITH THEM AND WILL SUSTAIN THEM WHILE THEIR ENEMY WILL BE CONFOUNDED (MICAH 7:7). The words that follow clearly refer to mor...
Micah 7:8 I. Men commonly think a sin to be cancelled when it is done and over; or, in other words, that amendment is an expiation. They do not take the trouble to repent. Regret, vexation, sorrow, su...
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...
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...
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:...
_I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against Him _ THE BELIEVER, CONSCIOUS OF GOD’S DISPLEASURE, CONFESSING HIS SIN This is the language of the Church of the living God....
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:9 INDIGNATION OF THE LORD... HE PLEADS MY CAUSE. The people admit that they have sinned. Yet they also know God forgives those who repent. OUT TO THE LIGHT... HIS VINDICATION. Th...
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 7:7.] Having no hope from man, the prophet looks to God, and speaks in the name of the Church. SALV.] _i.e._ from whom all help comes. MICAH 7:8. REJOICE] The enemy must not th...
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
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)...
1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 25:39; 1 Samuel 26:10;...
Plead — Against mine enemy, now he pleads his own cause against me. His righteousness — The truth and riches of his promised salvation....