Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Micah 7:10
She — What nation or people soever. Shall behold — The people of God shall see their enemies laid low.
She — What nation or people soever. Shall behold — The people of God shall see their enemies laid low.
Verse Micah 7:10. _THEN_ SHE THAT IS _MINE ENEMY_] This may refer particularly to the _city of Babylon_. _SHALL SHE BE TRODDEN DOWN_] Literally fulfilled in the sackage of that city by the Persians,...
THEN - (And) she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is He, He of whom thou boastest, the Lord thy God? The cause of her gladness then is, that the bla...
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...
THEN SHE, &C. So shall she [who had been] mine enemy: i.e. Assyria (in Micah 7:12)....
_ISRAEL TURNED BACK TO GOD -- MICAH 7:8-13:_ The nation of Israel had fallen exceedingly low. After a time of repentance and spiritual growth God would raise them up again. Things might have been dark...
DISCOURSE: 1215 ADDRESS OF THE JEWISH CHURCH TO HER ENEMIES Micah 7:8. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. I wi...
THE PROPHET LOOKS TO GOD. Micah 7:7-13 RV. But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I s...
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets...
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...
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...
The words ‘I’ and ‘me’ here refer to the people in Jerusalem. In the *Hebrew language, those words are female. That is because the name ‘Jerusalem’ is female in that language. Therefore it is as if Je...
NOW SHALL SHE BE TRODDEN DOWN. — The enemy that had taunted the Jews with the powerlessness of Jehovah should be trodden down when the Jews were delivered. Such was the experience of Sennacherib, who...
וְ תֵרֶ֤א אֹיַ֨בְתִּי֙ וּ תְכַסֶּ֣הָ בוּשָׁ֔ה...
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...
_She; Babylon, my enemy. (Challoner) --- It was taken by the Medes and Persians, who set the Jews at liberty, to the great mortification of their enemies. (Worthington) --- God thus displayed his just...
Reader! it is truly blessed when a child of God can thus look at every foe and triumph in Christ. Times of darkness are times for faith to be in lively exercise. It is of no real consequence in what s...
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...
In the last lecture I repeated the tenth verse of the last chapter, in which the prophet adds, as a cause of the greatest joy, that the enemies of the Church shall see granted, to their great mortific...
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...
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...
_Then [she that is] mine enemy shall see [it], and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the str...
_Then she that is mine enemy_ Namely, the Chaldean nation. _Which said unto me_, (namely, when she held me captive,) _Where is the Lord thy God?_ Where is now Jehovah, whom thou worshippest, and sayes...
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, this being the confident expectation of the Lord's people, AND SHAME SHALL COVER HER WHICH SAID UNTO ME, WHERE IS THE LORD, THY GOD? in the scornful question...
THE PRAYER OF REPENTANCE...
SHE THAT IS MINE ENEMY SHALL SEE IT, AND SHAME SHALL COVER HER: Or, and thou wilt see her that is mine enemy and cover her with shame SHE BE TRODDEN DOWN: _ Heb._ she shall be for a treading down...
8-13 Those truly penitent for sin, will see great reason to be patient under affliction. When we complain to the Lord of the badness of the times, we ought to complain against ourselves for the badne...
THEN; in the time of this hoped deliverance, when God shall, as I expect he will, plead my cause. MINE ENEMY; what nation or people soever, whether Assyria, Edom, or Babylon, or whoever. SHALL SEE; as...
Micah 7:10 enemy H341 (H8802) see H7200 (H8799) shame H955 cover H3680 (H8762) said H559 ...
THE RIGHTEOUS OF ISRAEL ARE HOWEVER CONFIDENT THAT IN ALL THIS YHWH WILL BE WITH THEM AND WILL SUSTAIN THEM WHILE THEIR ENEMY WILL BE CONFOUNDED (MICAH 7:7). The words that follow clearly refer to mor...
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:...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:10 SHAME WILL COVER.... MY EYES WILL LOOK UPON HER. A reversal of roles takes place. Those nations that earlier desired to see Zion defiled (Micah 4:11) are now
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 7:7.] Having no hope from man, the prophet looks to God, and speaks in the name of the Church. SALV.] _i.e._ from whom all help comes. MICAH 7:8. REJOICE] The enemy must not th...
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)...
2 Kings 9:33; 2 Samuel 22:43; Daniel 3:15; Ezekiel 7:18; Isaiah 25