Micah 7:9-20 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 7:7-13

The prophet, having sadly complained of the wickedness of the times he lived in, here fastens upon some considerations for the comfort of himself and his friends, in reference thereunto. The case is bad, but it is not desperate. Yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. I. ?Though God be now displeased he shall be reconciled to us, and then all will be well, Mic. 7:7, 9. We are now under the indignation of the Lord; God is angry with us, and justly, because we have sinned against... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 7:14-20

Here is, I. The prophet's prayer to God to take care of his own people, and of their cause and interest, Mic. 7:14. When God is about to deliver his people he stirs up their friends to pray for them, and pours out a spirit of grace and supplication, Zech. 12:10. And when we see God coming towards us in ways of mercy, we must go forth to meet him by prayer. It is a prophetic prayer, which amounts to a promise of the good prayed for; what God directed his prophet to ask no doubt he designed to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:9

I will bear the indignation of the Lord ,.... The Targum prefaces these words with "Jerusalem saith;' and they are the words of the prophet, in the name of Jerusalem or the church, resolving in the strength of divine grace to bear the present affliction, which had at least some appearance of divine indignation in it; not against the persons of God's people, who are always the objects of his love, and towards whom there is no fury in him; but against their sins, which are displeasing and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:10

Then she that is mine enemy shall see it ,.... The Chaldeans and Edomites shall see people of the Jews rising out of their calamities, brought out of the darkness of their captivity in Babylon, and enjoying the light of peace and prosperity in their own land. Some editions of the Targum, and Jarchi and Kimchi, have, in their glosses on this verse and Micah 7:9 , Rome, of whom they interpret this enemy, as Mr. Pocock observes; and so R. Elias F4 In Tishbi, p. 227. says the Targum... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:11

In the day that thy walls are to be built ,.... These words are not spoken to the enemy, as some think; either the Chaldeans, the walls of whose city, Babylon, being demolished by the Persians, it would be a long day or time before they were rebuilt and when their power of sending their decrees abroad among the nations would be far off: or to the enemy that should think to build up their walls with the spoils of Israel, in the time of Gog and Magog, and when their decree determined over... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:12

In that day also he shall come even to thee ,.... Which words also are not directed to the enemy, as some interpret them; as to Chaldea or Babylon; and the sense be, that Cyrus should come thither, and take it; or any more remote enemy of the Jews in the latter day, to whom the day of the Lord should come, or his decree of vengeance or judgment upon them, or any enemy to waste and destroy them; but they are a continued address to Jerusalem or the church, signifying that "he", the people... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:13

Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate ,.... Not the land of Chaldea, as some; or the land of the nations, as Jarchi and Kimchi; but the land of Israel. That part of it, which was possessed by the ten tribes, was made desolate by Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and that which was inhabited by the two tribes, by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and this desolation was to be, "notwithstanding" the above prophecies, and prior to the fulfilment of them. So some render the words, as in the margin... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:14

Feed thy people with thy rod ,.... These are either the words of God the Father to Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, calling upon him to do his office as such; to feed the people he had given him, the sheep of his hand, the flock of his pasture, by his Spirit, and with his word and ordinances; see Zechariah 11:5 ; or of Christ to his ministers, his undershepherds, to feed his sheep and his lambs, the people committed to their care and charge, with wholesome words, with sound and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:15

According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt ,.... This is an answer of the Lord to the prayer of the prophet, assuring him, and the church he represents, and on whose account he applies, that there would be as great a deliverance wrought for them, and as wonderful things done, as when Israel was brought out of the land of Egypt, which was effected with a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm, and was attended with amazing events; as the plagues in Egypt; the passage of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:16

The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might ,.... The Chaldeans or Babylonians, when they shall see the wonderful things done by the Lord in the deliverance of his people out of their hands, shall be ashamed of their own power and might, in which they trusted, and of which they boasted; but now shall be baffled and defeated, and not able to stop the progress of the arms of Cyrus, or detain the Jews any longer their captives; or they shall be confounded at the power and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 7:7-13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 7:14-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 7:16

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