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Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Micah 7:1-20

See Micah 6:1 ff for the passage comments with footnotes.Chap. 7. Micah 7:1-6. The Lamentation of the People. As appears from the subjoined transitus, Micah 7:7, and especially Micah 7:8, where the holy common wealth is manifestly thought of as speaking, the speaker here is the prophet, not so much as prophet, but as organ of the ideal person, the true Israel; like Isaiah 59:1 ff; Isaiah 60:1 ff., where the prophet identifies himself with the true Israel, personified throughout Isaiah 40-66.... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Micah 7:1-20

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 both hands. Husbands could not trust their wives. At such a time there is no refuge for God’s children save in God, Micah 7:7-13 . When we have learned our lesson we find God appearing for our help. He brings forth to the light and vindicates us. Then those that hated us, and suggested that He had... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Micah 7:1-20

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, ends with the consciousness of the necessity for judgment. Following this, the people pray for the guidance of Jehovah, and Jehovah answers with a promise that He will guide them as of old. Then the prophet in faith repeats Jehovah's promise. The last movement is a great final doxology, uttered... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 7:1-6

Micah (Or The Righteous Of Israel) Bewails The Condition Of The People (Micah 7:1-6 ). Micah (or the righteous of Israel whom he represents) now describe(s) the dreadful moral condition of his own people. From rich and powerful to the lowest level of society all are untrustworthy and undependable. Even close members of families cannot trust each other. This passage bore heavily on the heart of Jesus when He considered the conditions of the people of His own day, and what was to come. The idea... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 7:1-6

Micah 7:1-Joshua : . Contemporary Violence, Corruption, and Disloyalty.— This passage is distinct from the preceding, though the same introductory remark applies to it; in tone, however, it seems to come nearer to certain Psalms ( cf. Psalms 12:1 f.). Zion laments that the pious and upright man has become, through violence, as rare in her midst as the fruit in the garden or vineyard after the ingathering; men plot against their fellows as the huntsman against his prey ( Psalms 10:8 f.).... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Micah 7:3

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly: as we render the words, their plain sense will be, that all their diligence, that with both hands they can use, is to set forward evil and mischief. Possibly this clause might bear this reading, Both hands are towards evil; and then the following clause thus, To do good the prince asketh. The prince; the chief ruler, who commissioneth the judge, and should awe him from perverse judging, who should charge the judges as Jehoshaphat did, 2... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Micah 7:3-6

CRITICAL NOTES. Micah 7:3. Evil] Lit. Their hands are for evil, that they may do it earnestly, i.e. well, cleverly. Great] man. He] Emphatic, expresses desire, lit. the lust of his soul. They] Venal judges are ready to wrap, Heb. to weave or twist together; they pervert the cause of the poor. Micah 7:4. Best] The prince asks, the judge grants, and the rich co-operate; all resemble the brier and thorn-bush, which only prick and injure. Visit.] Corruption is so high that judgment will break in... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Micah 7:3

Micah 7:3 I. "Without hands." There are some good men who seem to be without hands altogether. From dawn of life until dusk they do nothing expressly for Christ. All the day passes thus in idleness with them. As to work: they could work with hands, because they do, in other things. But as soon as they come to any expressly Christian work both hands drop down, and there they stand without hands. II. "With one hand." This is the second state. For so, many of God's servants serve Him. And this is... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Micah 7:1-20

Chapter 7The 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 ).I'm desolate. I really don't have anything.The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is no upright men left: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asked, and the judges take bribes... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Micah 7:1-20

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: when I fall, I shall arise. The prophet here anticipates the language of the church in captivity. Zion would have a fall, and for a time would sit in darkness. Babylon would cast her down, and shut her up as it were in prison, bound in affliction and iron. Psalms 107:10-12. In this... read more