George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Micah 7:18
No more, for past offences. Yet, if they transgress again, they must not expect impunity. The Jews still bleed for the murder of the Messias. (Calmet)
No more, for past offences. Yet, if they transgress again, they must not expect impunity. The Jews still bleed for the murder of the Messias. (Calmet)
Verse Micah 7:18. _WHO_ IS _A GOD LIKE UNTO THEE, C._] Here is a challenge to all idol worshippers, and to all those who take false views of the true God, to show his like. See his characters they are...
WHO IS A GOD - (and, as the word means, A Mighty God,) like unto Thee? He saith not, “Who hast made heaven and earth, the sea and all that therein is” Exodus 20:11; nor, “Who telleth the number of the...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The prophet's complaint (Micah 7:1) _ 2. Confession, prayer and thanksgiving (Micah 7:7) Micah 7:1. It is the prophet's voice complaining over the conditions of the people. But he is...
ISRAEL'S CONFESSION OF FAITH. This undoubtedly post-exilic utterance of Israel's confidence _in._ Yahweh's delivering intervention falls into three portions, probably once distinct, viz. Micah 7:7 (th...
PARDONETH INIQUITY. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 34:7). INIQUITY. perverseness. Hebrew. _'avah._. MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace....
_THERE IS NO GOD LIKE THE TRUE GOD -- MICAH 7:18-20:_ Micah said that there is no God like the true and living God. God chose Israel to be His people, the people that He would use to bring the Messiah...
DISCOURSE: 1216 THE MERCY OF GOD Micah 7:18. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever,...
PRAYER OF PROPHETIC PRAISE. Micah 7:18-20 RV. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ev...
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. WHO IS A...
CONFESSION AND CONTRITION BRING BACK HOPE 1-6. Jerusalem laments her estate. The righteous among her children are taken from her by violence (Micah 7:1). The rulers misuse their position for their sel...
WHO _is_, etc.] Micah's name means 'Who is like the Lord? 'The prophet concludes with an outburst of praise....
Micah’s book now ends. In this verse, he describes our wonderful God. The people sing a final song to praise God. God gives the words of this song to them. The song starts with the words ‘There is no...
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 7 In this chapter, Micah continues to describe the situation in Jerusalem. But in his vision (dream), Micah seems to...
WHO IS A GOD LIKE UNTO THEE? — Micah, with an allusion to the significance of his own name, concludes his book with a burst of enthusiastic homage to the God of gods. The gracious character here ascri...
מִי ־אֵ֣ל כָּמֹ֗וךָ נֹשֵׂ֤א עָוֹן֙ וְ עֹבֵ֣ר
OUR MOTHER OF SORROWS Micah 7:7 AFTER so stern a charge, so condign a sentence, confession is natural, and, with prayer for forgiveness and praise to the mercy of God, it fitly closes the whole book....
GOD'S COMPASSION FOR AN ERRING PEOPLE Micah 7:1-20 Things had come to an awful pass in the favored city. Oppression, bribery, and bloodshed, were everywhere in the ascendant. Men wrought evil with b...
Following the charge, the people break into a lamentation which is of the nature of a confession, submission to judgment and hope. The prophet answers the cry with a message of hope, which, however, e...
Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and (s) passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy. (s)...
Reader! do observe from those blessed expressions, how the mind of the Prophet is lifted up, in admiring and adoring the riches and fulness of Almighty grace: He takes his contemplation of the greatne...
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 here exclaims that God ought to be glorified especially for this — that he is merciful to his people. When he says, _Who is God as thou art? _he does not mean that there are other gods; fo...
In chapter 7 the prophet takes the place of intercessor before God, in the name of the people-presenting to Him at once their deep misery and their iniquities [1] -speaking in their name, and identify...
WHO [IS] A GOD LIKE UNTO THEE,.... There is no God besides him, none so great, so mighty, as he; none like him for the perfections of his nature; for the works of his hands; for the blessings of his g...
Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy. Ver. 18...
_Who is a God like unto thee_ That is, there is no God like unto thee; _that passeth by the transgression of the remnant_, &c. That pardons the offences of the remainder of his people, namely, of thos...
The Prophet's Last Supplication...
Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, in the act of justification which is the basis of the work in His Church, AND PASSETH BY THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE REMNANT OF HIS HERITAGE? in gran...
14-20 When God is about to deliver his people, he stirs up their friends to pray for them. Apply spiritually the prophet's prayer to Christ, to take care of his church, as the great Shepherd of the s...
Lest what hath been spoken of this wonderful change in the affairs of the Jews should on one hand be thought to be made for the righteousness or worthiness of this people, or else on the other hand sh...
Micah 7:18 God H410 Pardoning H5375 (H8802) iniquity H5771 over H5674 (H8802) transgression H6588 remnant H7611 heritage
MICAH CLOSES HIS PROPHECY WITH THE ASSURANCE OF WHAT GOD WILL DO FOR HIS PEOPLE. (MICAH 7:18). As his prophecy comes to its close Micah continues by exulting in God's pardoning goodness and in His com...
REMNANT (_ See Scofield) - (Jeremiah 15:21). _...
The prophet begins in a sorrowful strain, and there is much that is said in the chapter, yet there is also much of holy confidence in God. Micah 7:1. _Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered t...
CONTENTS: Israel's sad present condition. The voice of the remnant in the last days. CHARACTERS: God, Micah. CONCLUSION: When a child of God has much occasion to cry «Woe is me» when it seems that a...
Micah 7:1. _I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits._ “I am become as the gatherers of late figs, as the gleaners of the vintage.” NEWCOME. Micah 7:8. _Rejoice not against me, oh mine enemy:...
_Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity?_ THE GRACE OF GOD TO SINNERS Micah and Isaiah were contemporaries. They lived in the same land, they lived in the same city; they ministered, we...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:18 WHO IS A GOD LIKE YOU? The question emphasizes the uniqueness of the God who defends and pardons his people (compare Exodus 15:11;...
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 7:14. FEED] Lit. rule; a prayer in the name of the people, to be fed on the fruitful mountain-range (Carmel) of the western sea-coast (Isaiah 10:18; Isaiah 37:24), and by Bashan...
EXPOSITION MICAH 7:1 § 5. _Israel's penitential acknowledgment of the general corruption._ MICAH 7:1 WOE IS ME! (Job 10:15). Micah threatens no more; he repre
The prophet said, Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desires the first ripe fruit (Micah 7:1)...
1 Kings 8:23; Acts 13:38; Acts 13:39; Amos 7:8; Amos 8:2;...