HE WILL TURN AGAIN - who seemed to be turned away from us when we were turned away from Him. “He will subdue, or trample under foot” Joel 2:14, our worst enemy, “our iniquities”, as He saith, “He shal...
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...
WILL TURN AGAIN. Compare Hosea 14:8....
_THERE IS NO GOD LIKE THE TRUE GOD -- MICAH 7:18-20:_ Micah said that there is no God like the true and living God. God chose Israel to be His people, the people that He would use to bring the Messiah...
DISCOURSE: 1216 THE MERCY OF GOD Micah 7:18. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever,...
AND THOU WILT CAST ALL THEIR SINS, &C.— Houbigant very properly joins the preceding clauses in this verse to the 18th, because the words pass into the second person, which continues to be used in the...
PRAYER OF PROPHETIC PRAISE. Micah 7:18-20 RV. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ev...
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. HE WILL TURN AGAIN - to us, from having been turne...
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...
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...
It is as if God will put his foot down hard on all his people’s *sins. It is as if he will throw their *sins into the deep sea. Then he will not see their *sins any longer. He will not remember their...
יָשׁ֣וּב יְרַֽחֲמֵ֔נוּ יִכְבֹּ֖שׁ עֲוֹֽנֹתֵ֑ינוּ וְ תַשְׁלִ֛יךְ...
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...
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all (t) their sins into the depths of the sea. (t) Meaning his elect....
_Away. Protestants, "subdue," (Haydock) or trample upon. (Calmet)_...
Reader! do observe from those blessed expressions, how the mind of the Prophet is lifted up, in admiring and adoring the riches and fulness of Almighty grace: He takes his contemplation of the greatne...
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 now prescribes to the faithful a form of glorying, that they may boldly declare that God will be pacified towards them. Since then God loves mercy, _he will return, he will have mercy on u...
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...
HE WILL TURN AGAIN,.... From his anger, and show his face and favour; which is not inconsistent with his everlasting and unchangeable love; for anger is not opposite to love, and is only a displicency...
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Ver. 19. _He will turn again, he will have compassion...
_Who is a God like unto thee_ That is, there is no God like unto thee; _that passeth by the transgression of the remnant_, &c. That pardons the offences of the remainder of his people, namely, of thos...
He will turn again, so the prophet assures the believers; HE WILL HAVE COMPASSION UPON US, HE WILL SUBDUE OUR INIQUITIES, treading them down like enemies that rise up against the believers; AND THOU W...
The Prophet's Last Supplication...
14-20 When God is about to deliver his people, he stirs up their friends to pray for them. Apply spiritually the prophet's prayer to Christ, to take care of his church, as the great Shepherd of the s...
HE WILL TURN AGAIN; spoken after the manner of man, who in his anger went away resolved to right himself, but on second thoughts, laying aside his anger, turns again to be reconciled and forgive. So t...
Micah 7:19 again H7725 (H8799) compassion H7355 (H8762) subdue H3533 (H8799) iniquities H5771 cast H7993 ...
MICAH CLOSES HIS PROPHECY WITH THE ASSURANCE OF WHAT GOD WILL DO FOR HIS PEOPLE. (MICAH 7:18). As his prophecy comes to its close Micah continues by exulting in God's pardoning goodness and in His com...
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:...
_And Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea _ GOD PUTTING AWAY THE INIQUITY OF HIS PEOPLE The mercies and promises of the Old Testament were but the outline of the glory thereafter...
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 7:14. FEED] Lit. rule; a prayer in the name of the people, to be fed on the fruitful mountain-range (Carmel) of the western sea-coast (Isaiah 10:18; Isaiah 37:24), and by Bashan...
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)...
1 John 3:8; Daniel 9:24; Deuteronomy 30:3; Deuteronomy 30:6;...