John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 1:16
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children ,.... Which is said, either with respect to Mareshah, or to Adullam, or to the whole land, as Kimchi observes; rather to the latter; and that either to Israel, or to Judah, or both; the prophecy in general being concerning them both, Micah 1:1 ; making baldness, whether by plucking off the hair, or by shaving it, was used in token of mourning, Job 1:20 ; and so it is designed to express it here: the inhabitants of the land are... 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