Micah 1:12

Maroth The name might mean Bitternesses, i.e. -perfect grief." Comp. Ruth 1:20, -Call me Mara, for the Lord hath made it bitter unto me," i.e. hath grieved me.

waited carefully Rather, hath been in pain.

for good i.e. for the good of liberty which it has lost.

but evil came down Rather, for evil is come down.

unto the gate of Jerusalem It is the -great gate" spoken of thus by Sennacherib in his boastful inscription, -the exit of the great gate of his city I caused (them) to break through" (Taylor's cylinder, Colossians 3. lines 22, 23). Sargon, however, is probably the Assyrian king referred to by the prophet, as also by Isaiah in a parallel passage (Isaiah 22:7), "the horsemen [of the enemy] set themselves in array towards the gate" (this is the correct rendering).