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
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