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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 1:8-16

We have here a long train of mourners attending the funeral of a ruined kingdom. I. The prophet is himself chief mourner (Mic. 1:8, 9): I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked, as a man distracted with grief. The prophets usually expressed their own grief for the public grievances, partly to mollify the predictions of them, and to make it appear that is was not out of ill-will that they denounced the judgments of God (so far were they from desiring the woeful day that they dreaded... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 1:8

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked ,.... To his shut, putting off his upper garment; the rough one, such as the prophets used to wear; which he did as the greater sign of his mourning: sometimes, in such cases, they rent their garments; at other times they stripped themselves of them, and walked naked, as Isaiah did, Isaiah 20:3 ; he went about like a madman, one disturbed in his mind, bereft of his senses, because of the desolation coming upon Israel; and without... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 1:8

I will make a wailing like the dragons - Newcome translates: - I will make a wailing like the foxes, (or jackals), And mourning like the daughters of the ostrich. This beast, the jackal or shiagal, we have often met with in the prophets. Travellers inform us that its howlings by night are most lamentable; and as to the ostrich, it is remarkable for its fearful shrieking and agonizing groanings after night. Dr. Shaw says he has often heard them groan as if they were in the greatest... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 1:8

Verse 8 The Prophet here assumes the character of a mourner, that he might more deeply impress the Israelites; for we have seen that they were almost insensible in their torpidity. It was therefore necessary that they should be brought to view the scene itself, that, seeing their destruction before their eyes they might be touched both with grief and fear. Lamentations of this kind are everywhere to be met with in the Prophets, and they ought to be carefully noticed; for we hence gather how... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:8

I will wail. The prophet marks the destruction of Samaria with these outward signs of mourning, in order that he might affect the minds of his own countrymen, and show how he grieved over their sins which should bring like punishment. The word rendered "wail" means "to beat" the breast. Septuagint, κόψεται : Vulgate, plangam. Stripped and naked . The former epithet the LXX . translate ἀνυπόδετος , as if it meant "barefoot;" and they refer the verse to Samaria, not to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:8

The prevalence of sin the source of grief to the good. I. THE FACT . The good in all ages have mourned over sin and its consequences ( Psalms 119:136 ; Jeremiah 9:1 ; Luke 19:41 , Luke 19:42 ). In Micah 1:8 we have pictured to us the distress of one thoroughly noble and good, true and patriotic, occasioned by the prevailing ungodliness and the calamities of which he had to speak. With a vivid sense of the evils of the times and of the coming judgments, this prophet (as others... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:8-9

3. Micah mourns because the punishment extends to Judah also. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

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

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 1:8-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 1:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 1:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 1:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:8-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 1:8-9

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

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

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