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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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 se...
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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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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 in...
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זַ֤עַף יְהוָה֙ אֶשָּׂ֔א כִּ֥י
חָטָ֖אתִי לֹ֑ו עַד֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָרִ֤יב
רִיבִי֙ וְ עָשָׂ֣ה מִשְׁפָּטִ֔י
יֹוצִיאֵ֣נִי
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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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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 wit...
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_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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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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,...
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Micah 7:9 bear H5375 (H8799) indignation H2197 LORD H3068 sinned H2398
(H8804) pleads H7378 (H8799) case H7379 executes H6213 (H8804) justice
H4941 forth H3318 (H8686) light H216 see H7200 (H8799) rig...
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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 mo...
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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, s...
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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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_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....
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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...
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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...
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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 represents
repentant Israel confessing its c...
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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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1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 25:39; 1 Samuel 26:10; 1
Samuel 3:18; 2 Samuel 16:11; 2 Samuel 16:12; 2 Samuel 24:17; 2
Thessalonians 1:5;...
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Plead — Against mine enemy, now he pleads his own cause against me.
His righteousness — The truth and riches of his promised salvation....