O mine enemy i.e. the instrument of God's -visitation," the heathen oppressor of Israel.
when I fall Rather, for (if) I have fallen. The -falling" is of course not that of sin, but of calamity, which is often represented as a stumbling-block.
when I sit in darkness Another figure for trouble; comp. Isaiah 60:1; Isaiah 9:2.
the Lord shall be a light Again an image from the Psalter; comp. Psalms 27:1.
Verse 8. _REJOICE NOT AGAINST ME, O MINE ENEMY_] The captive Israelites are introduced as speaking here and in the preceding verse. The _enemy_ are the _Assyrians_ and _Chaldeans_; the _fall_ is their...
REJOICE NOT AGAINST ME, O MINE ENEMY - The prophet still more makes himself one with the people, not only as looking for God, but in penitence, as Daniel bewails “his own sins and the sins of his peop...
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...
WHEN. FALL: i.e. into calamity; not into sin. Literally. have fallen,. have arisen; though. should sit in darkness, Jehovah, &c....
_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...
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. REJOICE NOT AGAINST ME - at my fall. O MINE ENEMY - as Babylon, Edom,...
7:8 enemy. (m-7) Feminine. see ver. 10. arise; (n-13) * Lit. 'when I have fallen I have arisen.'...
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...
WHEN I FALL] calamity, not sin, is meant....
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...
O MINE ENEMY. — The Hebrew word is strictly a female enemy (see Micah 7:10), and is used of enemies collectively. The cities of Babylon and Edom are probably intended. They are mentioned together in P...
אַֽל ־תִּשְׂמְחִ֤י אֹיַ֨בְתִּי֙ לִ֔י כִּ֥י נָפַ֖לְתִּי...
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...
Rejoice not against me, (h) O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me. (h) This is spoken in the voice of the Church, which calls the malig...
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...
_LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS_ ‘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 will bear the indignation of the Lord, because...
Here the Prophet assumes the character of the Church and repels a temptation, which proves very severe to us in adversities; for there is not so much bitterness in the evil itself, as in the mockery o...
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...
REJOICE NOT AGAINST ME, O MINE ENEMY,.... These are the words of the prophet in the name of the church, continued in an apostrophe or address to his and their enemy; by whom may be meant, literally, t...
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. Ver. 8. _Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy_] Here is the triumph of f...
_Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy_ Here begins a new subject; the Jewish nation in general being here introduced speaking in their captivity, and addressing themselves to the Chaldeans. _When I fa...
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy, the hostile world-power in general being addressed, as from the standpoint of the Lord's people; WHEN I FALL, I SHALL ARISE, for the restoration of Israel was tho...
THE PRAYER OF REPENTANCE...
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...
The prophet in this verse personates the church, and brings her in bespeaking the enemy in this manner: REJOICE NOT; let it be no pleasure or matter of glorying to time, that the day of calamity hath...
Micah 7:8 rejoice H8055 (H8799) enemy H341 (H8802) fall H5307 (H8804) arise H6965 (H8804) sit...
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...
Micah 7:8 I. Men commonly think a sin to be cancelled when it is done and over; or, in other words, that amendment is an expiation. They do not take the trouble to repent. Regret, vexation, sorrow, su...
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:...
_Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy; when I fail, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me _ THE REJOICING FOE REBUKED I. The rejoicing foe. At the moment of convers...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:8 I FALL... RISE;... I SIT IN DARKNESS... LIGHT. The city is compared to a prisoner of war, near death and in a dungeon of gloom. Yet the Lord provides the sure hope of freedom....
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 Corinthians 4:6; Acts 26:18; Ezekiel 25:6; Ezekiel 35:15; Isaiah 2:5
Rejoice not — The prophet personates the church. Let it be no matter of glorying to thee, that the day of calamity hath overtaken me. In darkness — When affliction, war, famine, and captivity cover me...