The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:1-6
§ 5. Israel's penitential acknowledgment of the general corruption. read more
彌迦書 7:2-4 Cunpts
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:1-6
The wail of a true patriot on the moral corruptions of his country. "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 desired the first ripe fruit," etc. In these verses the prophet bewails the moral condition of his country. The picture he draws of its wickedness is a very hideous one. It answers not only to the character of the people in the reign of Ahaz, but to their character under the reign of... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:1-13
The good in degenerate times. We are not to understand these verses as referring specially to the prophet himself. In Micah 1:8 , Micah 1:9 we have his own lamentation in view of the prevailing ungodliness; here "the speaker is not the prophet, but the true Israel, i.e. Israel within Israel, personified" (Cheyne). God has never left himself without witnesses. Even in the most corrupt and degenerate times he has had a people to show forth his praise. It was so in the age to which this... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:2
This verse explains the preceding comparison; the grape and the early fig represent the righteous man. The good man ; LXX ; εὐσεβής , the godly, pious man. The Hebrew word ( khasidh ) implies one who exercises love to others, who is merciful, loving, and righteous. Is perished out of the earth; has disappeared from the world (comp. Psalms 14:2 , Psalms 14:3 ; and especially Isaiah 57:1 ). They all lie in wait for blood. They all practise violence and rapine, and meditate... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:3
That they may do evil, etc. rather, both hands are upon (equivalent to "busy with") evil to do it thoroughly . This clause and the rest of the verse are very obscure Cheyne supposes the text to be corrupt. Henderson renders, "For evil their hands are well prepared;" so virtually Hitzig, Pusey, and the Septuagint. Caspari agrees rather with the Vulgate ( Malum manuum suarum dicunt bonum )," Hands are (busy) upon evil to make (it seem) good," which looks to that extremity of iniquity... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:3
Earnest sinners. A contrast is suggested between various grades of evil doing. Some are. not so much active as passive in sin. They drift; they are led; when sinners entice them they "consent," perhaps reluctantly at first. For want of resisting power they are found walking "in the counsel of the ungodly." Ere long they bestir themselves to gratify some sinful desire. At first they are half-hearted in the service of sin, for memory and conscience still restrain them. "Their heart is... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:4
The best of them is as a briar; hard and piercing, catching and holding all that passes by. The plant intended by the word chedek is a thorny one used for hedges ( Proverbs 15:19 ). Under another aspect thorns are a symbol of what is noxious and worthless ( 2 Samuel 23:6 ), or of sin and temptation. The most upright is sharper ( worse ) than a thorn hedge. Those who seem comparatively upright are more injurious, tangled, and inaccessible than a hedge of thorns. In... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 7:2
The, good - or godly, or merciful, the English marginMan - The Hebrew word contains all. It is “he who loveth tenderly and piously” God, for His own sake, and man, for the sake of God. Mercy was probably chiefly intended, since it wits to this that the prophet had exhorted, and the sins which he proceeds to speak of, are against this. But imaginary love of God without love of man, or love of man without the love of God, is mere self-deceit. “Is perished out of the earth,” that is, by an... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Micah 7:3
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly - (Literally, upon evil both hands to do well,) that is, “both their hands are upon evil to do it well,” or “earnestly” , as our translation gives the meaning; only the Hebrew expresses more, that evil is their good, and their good or excellence is in evil. Bad men gain a dreadful skill and wisdom in evil, as Satan has; and cleverness in evil is their delight. Jerome: “They call the evil of their hands good.” “The prince asketh, and the judge... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 7:1-2
A moral dearth in the land. The prophet, speaking in the name of the godly remnant of the land, laments their terrible isolation. We are thus reminded of the sad condition of a land in which there is a dearth of good men. For: 1 . They are the choice fruit of the land —wholesome, fragrant, delicious. The ideal Israel is compared to "grapes" and "the first ripe in the fig tree" (Hoe. 9:10). The Lord "taketh pleasure" in such; they satisfy the hunger of the Divine heart for godliness... read more