Verse Micah 6:14. _THOU SHALT EAT, BUT NOT BE SATISFIED_] All thy possessions are cursed, because of thy sins; and thou hast no _real_ _good_ in all thy enjoyments. _AND THY CASTING DOWN_] For וישחך...
THOU SHALT EAT, BUT NOT BE SATISFIED - The correspondence of the punishment with the sin shall shew that it is not by chance, but from the just judgment of God. The curse of God shall go with what the...
THE THIRD PROPHETIC DISCOURSE (6-7) CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The words of Jehovah to His people (Micah 6:1) _ 2. Israel's answer (Micah 6:6) 3. The moral demands of Jehovah (Micah 6:8) 4. The Lord must jud...
COMMERCIAL DISHONESTY AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This rather corrupt passage is quite distinct from Micah 6:1. It may have been written by Micah, and forms a parallel to his denunciation of agrarian dishones...
THOU SHALT EAT, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:26). THY CASTING DOWN. thy dissatisfaction or emptiness. Hebrew. _yeshach._ Occurs only here. SHALL BE IN THE MIDST OF THEE. [shall remain]...
_IDOLATRY DESTROYED THE NATION -- MICAH 6:12-16:_ God levied some serious charges against the rich. The charges were made not because they were rich but because of how they obtained the wealth. He sai...
THY CASTING-DOWN SHALL BE, &C.— _Darkness shall be upon thee; thou shalt fly away, but shalt not escape; and if any one shall escape, I will give him up to the sword._ See Houbigant and the LXX....
GOD'S JUSTICE DEMANDS THE WICKED BE PUNISHED. Micah 6:9-16 RV. The voice of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. Are there...
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword....
6:14 thee; (c-17) Or 'thou shalt be quite cast down.'...
GOD'S ARRAIGNMENT OF HIS PEOPLE 1-8. Micah's message to the discouraged believers. They have lost heart because of the apparent contradiction between the promises of their prophets and the hard facts...
THY CASTING DOWN, etc.] RM 'thy emptiness shall be in the midst of thee,' i.e. thy famine shall continue, because thou shalt have food but not sufficient. THOU SHALT TAKE hold, etc.] RV 'thou shalt re...
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ CHAPTER 6 SECTION 3 6:1-7:20 THIRD SERIES OF *PROPHECIES. GOD WILL FORGIVE THE *REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE 6:1-8 MICAH ACCUSES *...
Micah begins to make it clear how the people’s *sins in *Israel will affect everyone. The people are guilty of various crimes. God makes his decisions. The punishments will suit (match) the crimes. Ot...
THY CASTING DOWN. — The Hebrew word is found only in this passage. It comes from an unused root, meaning to be void, empty. Hence it may be translated _hunger._ THOU SHALT TAKE HOLD. — Thou shalt col...
אַתָּ֤ה תֹאכַל֙ וְ לֹ֣א תִשְׂבָּ֔ע וְ יֶשְׁחֲ
THE SIN OF THE SCANT MEASURE Micah 6:9; Micah 7:1 THE state of the text of Micah 6:9; Micah 7:1 is as confused as the condition of society which it describe
“WHAT DOTH THE LORD REQUIRE OF THEE?” Micah 6:1-16 In Micah 6:1-4 the prophet returns from his vision of the future to the actual condition of his people, which was utterly desperate. The mountains,...
This closing section is dramatic and magnificent. The prophet summoned Israel and the mountains to hear the controversy of Jehovah with His people. The key-word is "Jehovah... will plead." From that p...
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and (k) thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou (l) shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to...
CHAPTER VI. _ And thy. Septuagint, "I will cast thee away into thyself." (Haydock) --- Hold of some fruit. (Calmet) --- Thy wife shall miscarry; (Vatable, &c.) or if she bring forth, the children sha...
These expressions are all directed to one and the same end, namely, to teach Israel the enormity of his transgressions. Omri was a king in Israel, and so was Ahab, his son; both transgressors before t...
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...
And he points out what sort of punishment it would be; and he mentions even two kinds in this verse. He says first, _Thou shalt eat, and shalt not be satisfied. _One of God’s plagues, we know, is fami...
After having thus declared the counsels of God in grace, the Spirit returns to His pleadings with Israel in respect of their moral condition, calling the whole earth as audience to hear His controvers...
THOU SHALT EAT, BUT NOT BE SATISFIED,.... Either not having enough to eat, for the refreshing and satisfying of nature; or else a blessing being withheld from food, though eaten, and so not nourishing...
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the swor...
_Therefore will I make thee sick in smiting thee _ Therefore, upon account of these thy sins, I will, ere long, so smite thee, O Israel, that the strokes shall reach thy heart, and make thee sick unto...
A THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied, on account of the shortage of food following the invasion of the enemy; AND THY CASTING DOWN SHALL BE IN THE MIDST OF THEE, literally, "and thy emptiness remainet...
9-16 God, having showed how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows how plain it was that they had done unjustly. This voice of the Lord says to all, Hear the rod when it is coming, b...
THOU SHALT EAT; both literally and figuratively taken, for using what they have. So God threatens, LEVITICUS 26:26. So God did punish the Jews, SEE POOLE "HAG 1.6". But not be satisfied; not be filled...
Micah 6:14 eat H398 (H8799) satisfied H7646 (H8799) Hunger H3445 midst H7130 carry H5253 (H8686) save...
THE PROPHET NOW REINFORCES HIS WORDS BY CALLING FOR THEIR RESPONSE AND EMPHASISING THEIR FAILURES AND WHAT WILL RESULT FROM THEM (MICAH 6:9). Although YHWH pleads with His people they still walk in t...
Micah 6:1. _Hear ye now what the LORD saith;_ And yet some doubt the infallible inspiration of Scripture. I would commence every reading of the Scripture with such a word of admonition as this: «Hear...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's controversy with Israel's past and present. CHARACTERS: God, Omri, Ahab, Balak, Balaam. CONCLUSION: God issues a challenge to all who have ever professed belief in Him, but have w...
Micah 6:5. _Oh my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted._ He went to Balaam the false prophet for advice; and both he and his people, and the prophet perished together. Had he hearken...
_Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap _ USELESS LABOUR Mark the vexation of it--sowing and not reaping; sowing, and somebody else reaping. Here is the uncontrollable element in life. A man says,...
CRITICAL NOTES.] MICAH 6:13. SICK] _i.e._ I smite thee mortally (cf. for expression, Nahum 3:19; for matter, Micah 1:9). Micah 6:14. Satis.
EXPOSITION VERSE 6:1-7:20 Part III. In this address, which is later than the preceding parts, the prophet sets forth the way of salvation: PUNISHMENT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF SIN; REPENTANCE IS THE ONLY...
Hear ye now what the LORD says; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for th...
Amos 2:14; Amos 9:1; Deuteronomy 32:22; Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 4:17;...
In the midst of thee — Thou shalt be cast down at home by thy own hands. Thou shalt take hold — This may refer either to persons or things, on which we lay hold in order to save them. Shalt not delive...