George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Micah 1:16
Eagle. When it loses its feathers, it becomes languid. (Theodoret) --- This verse should be joined with the next chapter, which regards the kingdom of Israel. (Calmet)
Eagle. When it loses its feathers, it becomes languid. (Theodoret) --- This verse should be joined with the next chapter, which regards the kingdom of Israel. (Calmet)
Verse Micah 1:16. _MAKE THEE BALD_] _Cutting off the hair_ was a sign of great distress, and was practised on the death of near relatives; see Amos 8:10. The desolation should be so great that Israel...
MAKE THEE BALD, POLL - (literally, shear thee for thy delicate children Some special ways of cutting the hair were forbidden to the Israelites, as being idolatrous customs, such as the rounding the ha...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATION THE FIRST PROPHETIC MESSAGE CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Micah 1:1) _ 2. Judgment announced (Micah 1:2) 3. The destruction of Samaria (Micah 1:6) 4. The lamentation o...
THE DIRGE ON ISRAEL'S DOWNFALL. This is a difficult and corrupt passage, playing on the names of towns and villages which are chosen for their assonances or their ominous suggestions, in a way impossi...
MAKE THEE BALD, &C. The signs of mourning. Compare Job 1:20; Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 22:12.Jeremiah 7:29;...
_Make thee bald_ The prophet addresses the sorrowing mother, Judah, who sees her children go forth into exile. The injunction is to be understood poetically (see on Micah 1:13). Artificial baldness, a...
_GOD'S NATURE DEMANDS ANGER AGAINST SIN -- MICAH 1:13-16:_ God said, "Get the war chariots ready, you people of Lachish. You led Jerusalem into sin, just as Israel did." Lachish was a strong city abou...
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee. MAKE THEE BALD ... - a token of deep mourning (; ). Mourn, O...
1:16 eagle, (p-18) Or 'vulture.'...
JUDGMENT ON SAMARIA AND JUDAH Sargon destroyed Samaria, the capital of North Israel, 722 or 721. Micah, about 720 b.c., declaring (Micah 1:6) that Samaria's fall has been due to its sin, announces a l...
MAKE THEE BALD] artificial baldness was a sign of mourning (Leviticus 19:27; Deuteronomy 14:1). EAGLE] probably griffon vulture. Judah is here addressed as a woman MOURNING over the loss of her childr...
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF MICAH ‘_People, the *LORD told you what goodness is. This is what the *LORD wants you to do. Be fair to ot...
God gives more orders. These orders are for the people in Jerusalem. The children, like their parents, are important people. Parents love their children. The *Assyrians will take the children away to...
MAKE THEE BALD. — Joel appeals to the land of Judah to go into deep mourning by reason of the loss of her children, slain in war or carried into captivity. The shaving of the head as a token of grief...
קָרְחִ֣י וָ גֹ֔זִּי עַל ־בְּנֵ֖י תַּעֲנוּגָ֑יִךְ...
MICAH THE MORASTHITE Micah 1:1 SOME time in the reign of Hezekiah, when the kingdom of Judah was still inviolate, but shivering to the shock of the fall of Samaria, and probably while Sargon the dest...
GOD'S WITNESS AGAINST HIS CHOSEN Micah 1:1-16 Micah was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea. Jeremiah quotes from him. Compare Micah 3:12 and Jeremiah 26:18. In Micah 1:1-4 the prophet _summons the n...
The first message of Micah consists of a summons, a proclamation of Jehovah, and a prophetic message based on the proclamation. This division ends with an account of the intenuption of the false proph...
REFLECTIONS SOME may not easily discover the Lord Jesus in this scripture. But in the poverty and misery of our fallen nature, God the Holy Ghost is not unfrequently preaching Christ. For Reader! suff...
I do not trespass on the Reader with observations on what is here said; it is sufficient to remark, that the Prophet is speaking of the low estate of the Church, and he calls in the neighboring nation...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophecy of Micah, like all the rest, has its own distinctive properties, though falling into the general current of testimony to Israel, and so far with...
The Prophet at length concludes that nothing remained for the people but lamentation; for the Lord had resolved to desolate and destroy the whole country. Now they were wont in mourning, as we have se...
The Lord speaks in this book from His temple, and addresses all the peoples-the whole earth. That is to say, He takes His place upon His earthly throne to judge the whole earth, in testimony against a...
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 eit...
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee. Ver. 16. _Make thee bald and poll thee_] _i.e._ Make most bitte...
_Make thee bald_ O Judah and Israel, tear off thy hair; _and poll thee_ Shave what thou canst not tear off; _for thy delicate children_, &c. For the loss of them, some being slain, others starved or s...
Make thee bald, Zion as the mother of the nation being addressed, AND POLL THEE, shearing her head, FOR THY DELICATE CHILDREN, in deep grief and sorrowful lamentation; ENLARGE THY BALDNESS AS THE EAGL...
Lamentation Over Judah's Chastisement...
8-16 The prophet laments that Israel's case is desperate; but declare it not in Gath. Gratify not those that make merry with the sins or with the sorrows of God's Israel. Roll thyself in the dust, as...
MAKE THEE BALD; O Judea and Israel, in token of sorrow for these wasting judgments, tear off thy hair with thine own hands. POLL THEE; shave off with the razor and by others hand what thou canst not t...
Micah 1:16 bald H7139 (H8798) hair H1494 (H8798) precious H8588 children H1121 Enlarge H7337 (H8685) baldness...
A LAMENT FOR THE CITIES OF JUDAH (MICAH 1:10). These cities lay in the path of Sennacherib as he advanced on Jerusalem after defeating the Egyptian army, and subjugating Philistia, and they illuminat...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel. Impending judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Micah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: There comes a time when men who have persisted in sin must face ruin without...
Micah 1:1. _Micah the Morasthite,_ alluding to a village in the tribe of Judah, near the city of Eleuthera, which distinguishes him from the prophet Micaiah, who foretold the defeat of Ahab. 1 Kings 2...
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 1:10.] The Prophet thinks now of the malicious joy of heathen neighbours. Ten places are mentioned in Micah 1:10 to depict what would happen in them. In most cases the things sai...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1:1-2:13 Part I. THREATENINGS AND JUDGMENTS ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH, WITH PREDICTION OF EVENTUAL DELIVERANCE. MICAH 1:1 The...
Shall we turn now to the book of Micah. As is the very typical opening of most of the books of the prophets, The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and He...
2 Kings 17:6; Amos 8:10; Deuteronomy 28:41; Deuteronomy 28:56;...
Thee — O Judea and Israel, tear off thy hair. Shave what thou canst not tear off. For thy children — For the loss of them, some being slain, others starved, or swept away with pestilence, and the resi...