Micah 7:14

"Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old."

Micah came to the near-end of his prophecy in these words. Before those days of deliverance and glory just mentioned, a long and terrible pathway of persecution, privation and death lay before God's people, even the righteous remnant; and, in these final verses, "Micah laid down his pastoral office to Him who was their true and abiding Shepherd."[26] Micah knew that the people would walk "through the valley of the shadow of death"; and, as he was nearing the end of his labors, he felt many of these emotions of faithful preachers of the gospel who draw near to "that hour that cometh in which no man can work." Appropriately, therefore, he commended the faithful remnant to the keeping of the "Chief Shepherd and bishop of their souls."

"Carmel...Goshen...Gilead ..." These Were names associated with the former excellence and glory of the chosen people; and by the use of this terminology, Micah solicited for his people the most wonderful of all God's wonderful blessings.