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The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:8-9

Moral incurableness. "Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem." These verses have been thus translated: "Therefore will I lament and howl; I will go spoiled and naked; I will keep lamentation like the jackats, and mourning like the ostriches. For her stripes are malignant; for it comes to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:9

Her wound; her stripes , the punishment inflicted on Samaria. Incurable (comp. Jeremiah 15:18 ) The day of grace is past, and Israel has not repented. It is come. The stripe, the punishment, reaches Judah. To the prophetic eye the Assyrians' invasion of Judaea seems close at hand, and even the final attack of the Chaldeans comes within his view. The same sins in the northern and southern capitals lead to the same fate. He is come. He, the enemy, the agent of the "stripe." The gate... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 1:8

Therefore I will - Therefore I wouldWail - (properly, beat, that is, on the breast).And howl - “Let me alone,” he would say, “that I may vent my sorrow in all ways of expressing sorrow, beating on the breast and wailing, using all acts and sounds of grief.” It is as we would say, “Let me mourn on,” a mourning inexhaustible, because the woe too and the cause of grief was unceasing. The prophet becomes in words, probably in acts too, an image of his people, doing as they should do hereafter. He... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 1:9

For her - Samaria’sWound - o, (literally, her wounds, or strokes, (the word is used especially of those inflicted by God, (Leviticus 26:21; Numbers 11:33; Deuteronomy 28:59, Deuteronomy 28:61, etc.) each, one by one,) is incurable The idiom is used of inflictions on the body politic (Nahum 3:0 ult.; Jeremiah 30:12, Jeremiah 30:15) or the mind , for which there is no remedy. The wounds were very sick, or incurable, not in themselves or on God’s part, but on Israel’s. The day of grace passes away... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 1:8-9

Micah 1:8-9. Therefore I will wail and howl I will mourn and lament. I will go stripped and naked That is, without an upper garment; or with garments rent and torn. This would fitly denote the naked condition to which the ten tribes were to be reduced by their enemies. I will make a wailing like dragons The word rendered dragons, according to Pocock on the place, may “signify a kind of wild beast like a dog, between a dog and a fox, or a wolf and a fox, which the Arabians, from the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Micah 1:1-16

1:1-3:12 SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM DOOMEDA picture of coming destruction (1:1-16)The prophet Micah was from a country village in the Judean foothills between the central mountain range and the coastal plain. He was probably a farmer, and he directed his attacks at the upper class city dwellers who drove the farmers into poverty. They lived in luxury by exploiting the poor. As a Judean he was concerned mainly with conditions in his country’s capital, Jerusalem, but he also attacked the northern... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Micah 1:8

wail = lament. Compare the Structure above; and note weight of the prophetic "burden". dragons = jackals. owls. Hebrew daughters of a doleful cry. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Micah 1:9

wound = stroke. Hebrew. makkah (feminine) it. Aramaean and Syriac read "she". Referring to her stroke, which is feminine. he = he, referring to some unnamed foe. Aram, and Syriac read "she", referring to the "stroke" of judgment. the gate. Compare Obadiah 1:11 , Obadiah 1:13 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Micah 1:8

"For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches."Many of the prophets of God reinforced their prophetic denunciations by symbolical behavior in themselves, as when Hosea was married to Gomer. For such a lament as that pictured here to have had any effect at all, or for it to have been in any manner appropriate, would require that it be done before the fall of Samaria came. After it had fallen, there... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Micah 1:9

"For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth even to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.""Her wounds are incurable ..." The reason why Samaria's wound was fatal resided in the fact of Jerusalem itself having become corrupted. In Jerusalem should have been the true worship capable of reclaiming the apostate northern kingdom; but the opposite had occurred. Samaria's sins had been approved and adopted in Jerusalem, hence the wound could not be healed. The... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:8-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 1:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 1:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 1:8-9

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Micah 1:1-16

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Micah 1:8

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Micah 1:9

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Micah 1:8

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Micah 1:9

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