Verse Micah 4:12. _BUT THEY KNOW NOT THE THOUGHTS OF THE LORD_] These think that God has utterly rejected his people, and they shall have a troublesome neighbour no more: but this is not his design;...
BUT THEY KNOW NOT THE THOUGHTS OF THE LORD, NEITHER UNDERSTAND THEY HIS COUNSEL - The pagan did, for their own ends, what God willed for His. The first step was the same; God willed that His people sh...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The future of glory (Micah 4:1) _ 2. The restoration and the final victory (Micah 4:6) Micah 4:1. The last verse predicted the long desolation and ruin of Zion. This is followed at on...
MICAH 4:6 TO MICAH 5:1. EXILE AND RESTORATION: ISRAEL'S VICTORY OVER THE NATIONS. The reference to the Babylonian exile (Micah 4:10) shows that the passage is not earlier than the sixth century, Micah...
THEY KNOW NOT. Compare Isaiah 55:8; Jeremiah 29:11. THOUGHTS. purposes, or plans: i.e. for Israel in purging him of idolatry by his tribulation. COUNSEL: i.e. with regard to themselves. The reason f...
_THE HEATHENS DID NOT UNDERSTAND GOD'S PLAN -- MICAH 4:11-13:_ It is sad when people take pleasure in the misfortune of others. However, there were many nations that surrounded Israel that said, "We c...
DISTRESS AND REDEMPTION. Micah 4:9 to Micah 5:1 RV. Now why doest thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?...
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. BUT THEY KNOW NOT THE THOUGHTS OF THE LORD. Their unsearchab...
BRIGHT VISIONS OF THE FUTURE Micah's view of Israel's future, especially in relation to the nations. He believes that God chose Israel to maintain and teach true religion, and that in this lies Israel...
HE SHALL GATHER] RV 'He hath gathered.' God has brought them to their ruin....
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 4 4:1-8 NEW JERUSALEM WILL HAVE A HIGH POSITION OVER THE NATIONS There is a big change now in Micah’s *prophecy. He...
However, these armies do not understand what God is doing. They do not realise that God is using them. He is causing their defeat. They gather against Jerusalem. But it is the *LORD who gathers them....
THEY KNOW NOT THE THOUGHTS OF THE LORD. — As a commentary upon this passage, we may compare the message of God with reference to the haughty thoughts of Sennacherib. Then the Lord declared that the As...
וְ הֵ֗מָּה לֹ֤א יָֽדְעוּ֙ מַחְשְׁבֹ֣ות יְהוָ֔ה...
THE KING TO COME Micah 4:8 - Micah 5:1 WHEN a people has to be purged of long injustice, when some high aim of liberty or of order has to be won, it is remarkable how often the drama of revolution pa...
THE PROMISE OF PEACE Micah 4:1-13 It is not improbable that Isaiah, Micah 2:1-4, and Micah quoted an older prophecy, which in its fullness, is yet to be fulfilled. In the millennial age Israel, in he...
From this scene of a corrupt people governed by corrupt rulers, the prophet lifts his eyes, and looking into the future sees the day when under true government deliverance will be wrought and the divi...
But they (m) know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. (m) He shows that the faithful ought not to measure God's...
CHAPTER IV. _ Hay. Protestants, "sheaves." (Haydock) --- People were thus often trodden to death by oxen. (Atheneus xii. 5.)_...
The Church is and ever must be, upon earth, the envy of the carnal world. But, Reader, what a sweet thought it is for you, for me, for all, that when the enemies of Christ and his redeemed seem to tri...
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...
Consolation follows, _But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, nor understand his counsel_: for verbs in the past tense have the meaning of the present. Here the Prophet recalls the attention of the...
But again the prophet, in the spirit of Isaiah, concludes his denunciations of sin, and his prophecies of judgment and desolation, by announcing the full re-establishment of blessing and glory in Zion...
BUT THEY KNOW NOT THE THOUGHTS OF THE LORD, NEITHER UNDERSTAND THEY HIS COUNSEL,.... Which are very different from theirs: the thoughts and designs of the enemies of Zion, in the times of the Maccabee...
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Ver. 12. _But they know not the thoughts of the Lord_] Nothing...
_Now also_ The time is at hand; _many nations are gathered against thee_ This may be understood of the Chaldeans and their associates, who pleased themselves with the thoughts of profaning the temple,...
But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, the object which He has in mind in thus dealing with His people, NEITHER UNDERSTAND THEY HIS COUNSEL, which intended to lead His people to repentance and to...
ZION ESTABLISHED THROUGHOUT THE EARTH...
9-13 Many nations would assemble against Zion to rejoice in her calamities. They would not understand that the Lord had collected them as sheaves are gathered to be threshed; and that Zion would be s...
BUT THEY, the gathered confederate nations, Zion's enemies, KNOW NOT, neither discern nor consider, the thoughts of the Lord; the design of the holy, just, gracious, and faithful God, who is the God o...
Micah 4:12 know H3045 (H8804) thoughts H4284 LORD H3068 understand H995 (H8689) counsel H6098 gather H6908 ...
MICAH DESCRIBES THE COMING TRIBULATIONS OF JUDAH BUT GIVES THE FINAL ASSURANCE THAT IN THE END YHWH WILL TRIUMPH (MICAH 4:9). The near future is seen as bleak. Judah and Jerusalem are seen as in despa...
Micah 4:1. _But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people...
CONTENTS: The future kingdom of Christ on earth and Israel's happy regathering. Battle of Armageddon. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: In the last days of the age, the Kingdom of Christ shall be...
Micah 4:1. _In the last days it shall come to pass._ In the new times, as in Isaiah 4., which Micah had read, and now repeats by the Spirit. In the gospel age the new-testament church, built above the...
The Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies THE MORAL REGENERATION OF THE WORLD I. The state of mankind requires it. “Is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished?” It was more...
CRITICAL NOTES. Micah 4:9.] Zion will lose her king, wander into captivity, but will be redeemed from her enemies. KING] Loss of royal government, the cause of lamentation, more painful to Israel tha...
EXPOSITION MICAH 4:1 § 4. _The prophet suddenly announces the future glory of the temple mountain and the ideal happiness of the people_ MICAH 4:1 BUT. There is no adversative particle here; the ve...
But in the last days (Micah 4:1) Or in the later days. So we move on out into yet the future. This has not yet happened, far from it, but it is going to happen. And I am convinced that it is going to...
Isaiah 21:10; Isaiah 55:8; Jeremiah 29:11; Joel 3:12; Joel 3:13;...
The thoughts — The design of the holy, just and faithful God. As the sheaves — The husbandman gathers the sheaves into the floor to thresh them; so God in due time will bring his enemies together, tha...