弥迦书 7:15-17 RCUVSS

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:14-17

Prayer and its response. How mysteriously great is the privilege of prayer! How wonderful that finite creatures may thus draw near to the Infinite, carrying their needs into the Divine presence, breathing their desires into the ear of God, and obtaining from him all required mercy and grace! We think of the patriarch who, weary and worn with his wanderings, slept, with a stone for his pillow, and we speak of the ladder he beheld connecting the spot where he lay with the very throne of God,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:15

According to ( as in ) the days. The Lord answers the prophet's prayer, taking up his last word, and promising even more than he asks, engaging to equal the wonders which marked the exodus from Egypt. That great deliverance was a type and foreshadowing of Messianic salvation (comp. Isaiah 43:15 , etc.; Isaiah 51:10 ; 1 Corinthians 10:1 , etc.). Unto him; unto the people of Israel ( Micah 7:14 ). Marvellous things; Septuagint, οψεσθε θαυμαστά , "Ye shall see marvellous... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:15-17

The ultimate deliverance of man from sin. "According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I show unto him marvellous things The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their cars shall be deaf. They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee." In this passage there is an answer to the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:16

Shall see. The heathen shall see these marvellous things. Be confounded at ( ashamed of ) all their might. Hostile nations shall be ashamed when they find the impotence of their boasted power. Compare the effect of the Exodus on contiguous nations ( Exodus 15:14 , etc.; Joshua 2:9 , Joshua 2:10 ). They shall lay their hand upon their mouth. They shall be silent from awe and astonishment ( 18:19 ; Job 21:5 ; Isaiah 52:15 ). Their ears shall be deaf . Their senses shall... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:17

They shall lick the dust like a serpent ( Genesis 3:14 ; Isaiah 65:25 ). The enemies of God's people "shall lick the dust" ( Psalms 72:9 ), shall be reduced to the utmost degradation ( Isaiah 49:23 ). They shall move out of their holes, etc.; rather, they come trembling out of their close places (or, fastnesses, Psalms 18:46 ), like crawling things of the earth . They who prided themselves on their security shall come forth from their strongholds in utter fear, driven out... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 7:15

According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt - God answers the prayer, beginning with its closing words . Micah had prayed, “Turn Thy people like the days of old; “God answers, “like the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt.” Micah had said, in the name of his people, “I shall behold His Righteousness; God answers, I will make him to behold marvelous things” . The word marvelous things was used of God’s great marvels in the physical world Job 5:9; Job 37:5, Job 37:14, or... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 7:16

The nations shall see - God had answered, what He would give to His own people, to see. Micah takes up the word, and says, what effect this sight should have upon the enemies of God and of His people. The world should still continue to be divided between the people of God and their adversaries. Those who are converted pass from the one to the other; but the contrast remains. Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, pass away or become subject to other powers; but the antagonism continues. The nations are they,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 7:17

They shall lick the dust like a (the) serpent - To lick the dust, by itself, pictures the extreme humility of persons who east themselves down to the very earth (as in Psalms 72:9; Isaiah 49:23). To lick it “like the serpent” seems rather to represent the condition of those who share the serpent’s doom Genesis 3:14; Isaiah 65:25, whose lot, viz. earth and things of earth, they had chosen (Rup.): “They shall move out of their holes”, or, better, shall tremble, (that is, “come tremblingly,”) out... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 7:15-16

Micah 7:15-16. According to the days of thy coming These words are an answer to the prophet’s prayer in the foregoing verse; wherein God tells him that the wonders he will perform in bringing back his people into their own country shall be as conspicuous as those which he showed in their deliverance out of Egypt, and giving them the first possession of it. The sense is equivalent to that of Psalms 68:22, The Lord hath said, I will bring my people again, as I did from Bashan, &c. The... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 7:17

Micah 7:17. They shall lick the dust like a serpent They shall fall to the earth through fear, and carry themselves very humbly and submissively toward God’s people. They shall move out of their holes like worms They shall be afraid to stir out of their lurking-holes; and if they creep out like worms, they shall presently hide their heads again. They shall be afraid of the Lord our God Overthrowing the Babylonish empire by Cyrus. This is expressed Isaiah 45:1, by loosing the loins of... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:14-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:15-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 7:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 7:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 7:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 7:15-16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Micah 7:17

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