the land i.e. the land of Canaan. Before the great promises of a golden future can be realized, judgment must have its perfect work. We might, however, render -the earth," i.e. the earth with the exception of Canaan. The desolation of the earth would help to explain the thronging of the people to Palestine foretold in the preceding verse.
Verse Micah 7:13. _NOTWITHSTANDING THE LAND SHALL BE DESOLATE_] This should be translated in the preter tense, "Though the land HAD been desolate;" that is, the land of Israel had been desolate during...
NOTWITHSTANDING - (And) the land (that is that spoken of, the land of Judah) shall be desolate not through any arbitrary law or the might of her enemies, but through the sins of the people, because of...
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...
NOTWITHSTANDING: i.e. But first, or before this. THE LAND, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:33, the same word)....
_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...
NOTWITHSTANDING, THE LAND SHALL BE DESOLATE— _And the land shall be laid waste, with its inhabitants; this shall be the fruit of their doings._ Houbigant....
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...
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. NOTWITHSTANDING THE LAND SHALL BE DESOLATE BECAUSE OF THEM THAT DWELL THEREIN, FOR THE...
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...
THE LAND] Canaan. Before this return must come chastisement. 14. The prophet passes abruptly to prayer. SOLITARILY] Israel was always separated from the nations as the flock of God: cp. Numbers 23:9....
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...
Micah has spoken about his belief in God. He now speaks a message about hope. This part of the song has two sections. First, the other nations will enter inside the walls of Jerusalem (verses 11-12)....
NOTWITHSTANDING THE LAND SHALL BE DESOLATE. — There is still bitterness in the cup. In the midst of the triumphant expectation of the glory to come, there rises up the vision of the desolation of the...
וְ הָיְתָ֥ה הָ אָ֛רֶץ לִ שְׁמָמָ֖ה עַל
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...
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of (m) their doings. (m) Before this grace appears, he shows how grievously the hypocrites themselves will...
_Land of Babylon, (Challoner) or "the land of Judea (Haydock) has been," &c. It might also be again made desolate, because the captives built houses for themselves, and neglected the temple, Aggeus i....
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...
The Prophet, as I have already said, seems to be inconsistent with himself: for after having spoken of the restoration of the land, he now abruptly says, that it would be deserted, because God had bee...
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...
NOTWITHSTANDING THE LAND SHALL BE DESOLATE,.... Not the land of Chaldea, as some; or the land of the nations, as Jarchi and Kimchi; but the land of Israel. That part of it, which was possessed by the...
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. Ver. 13. _Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate_] Understand it, not of the land of...
_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...
THE PRAYER OF REPENTANCE...
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate, the reference very likely being to the earthly Palestine, BECAUSE OF THEM THAT DWELL THEREIN, FOR THE FRUIT OF THEIR DOINGS. While the Land of Promise, whic...
NOTWITHSTANDING: Or, after that it hath been...
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...
NOTWITHSTANDING, Heb. _And_, but well rendered here _Not-withstanding_, viz. these promises of restitution, and gathering in the dispersed Jews, &c., which took not place till more than two hundred ye...
Micah 7:13 land H776 desolate H8077 dwell H3427 (H8802) fruit H6529 deeds H4611 Not withstanding the land shall be - or, After that the land hath been,...
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:...
_For the fruit of their doings _ MAN’S RUIN THE FRUIT OF HIS OWN CONDUCT Assuming it to be a fact that man’s ruin is evermore the fruit of his own conduct, three things must follow-- I. That his mi...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:13 DESOLATE. Safety is found only in Jerusalem. Outside there is only a wasteland. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 7:11.] This confidence rises. DAY] Fences will be built up. DECREE] The law imposed upon Israel by heathens, some; others, the decree of God for her captivity. MICAH 7:12. THAT...
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)...
Daniel 4:26; Daniel 4:27; Galatians 6:7; Galatians 6:8; Isaiah 24:3;...
Not withstanding — These promises of restitution, which took not place 'till more than two hundred years after....