Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Micah 7:14
Feed:
Or, rule
Feed:
Or, rule
Verse Micah 7:14. _FEED THY PEOPLE WITH THY ROD_] בשבטך _beshibtecha_, "with thy crook." The shepherd's crook is most certainly designed, as the word _flock_ immediately following shows. No _rod_ of _...
FEED THY PEOPLE WITH THY ROD - The day of final deliverance was still a great way off. There was a weary interval before them of chastisement, suffering, captivity. So Micah lays down his pastoral off...
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...
FEED, &C. Note here, the prayer of Micah. Supply the _Ellip_ sis: "[Then Micah prayed, and said:. Jehovah] Feed Thy People", &c. FEED. shepherd Thou (masc). ROD. Hebrew. _shebet,_ as in Micah 5:1. n...
_the flock of thine heritage_ Comp. Psalms 28:9 -bless thine inheritance; feed them also;" Psalms 95:7 _thus judgment springeth up as hemlock_, &c. Rather, SO JUDGMENT SHALL SPRING UP AS THE POPPY. Th...
_MICAH'S PRAYER AND THE LORD'S ANSWER -- MICAH 7:14-17:_ Micah prayed that God would rule and lead His people. He requested that God would "let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old....
FEED THY PEOPLE— These are the words of the prophet to the same divine Person who had said that he should _arise_ after he had _fallen,_ Micah 7:8 considering whom as a shepherd, he prays him to feed...
THE PROPHET PRAYS FOR HIS PEOPLE. Micah 7:14-17 RV. Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and G...
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. FEED THY PEOPLE -...
7:14 forest, (d-16) See Ezekiel 34:25 ....
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...
FEED THY PEOPLE WITH THY ROD. — Or, _with thy shepherd_’_s crook._ The prophet lifts up his prayer for the people, either dwelling “alone” among the idolaters of Babylon — among them, but not of them...
רְעֵ֧ה עַמְּךָ֣ בְ שִׁבְטֶ֗ךָ צֹ֚אן נַֽחֲלָתֶ֔ךָ...
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...
(n) Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. (n) The Proph...
_Alone: destitute of all things, or in full security, Jeremias xv. 17., and Numbers xxiii. 9. God will feed his people (Calmet) in the most fertile places, designated by Carmel and Basan. (Haydock) --...
Here seems to be a call to the great shepherd of Israel to regard his fold, and that with peculiar manifestations of favor, because they are dwelling in solitary places. Perhaps void of ordinances, an...
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...
Here the Prophet turns to supplications and prayers; by which he manifests more vehemence, than if he had repeated again what he had previously said of the restoration of the Church; for he shows how...
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...
FEED THY PEOPLE WITH THY ROD,.... These are either the words of God the Father to Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, calling upon him to do his office as such; to feed the people he had given hi...
Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. Ver. 14. _Feed th...
_Feed thy people with thy rod_, &c. This seems to be a prayer which the prophet broke out into on this occasion, beseeching God to take his people again under his peculiar protection and care; which i...
The Prophet's Last Supplication...
Feed Thy people with Thy rod, with a true shepherd's care, the staff being the mark of the shepherd, Zechariah 11:4 ff.; Psalms 23, THE FLOCK OF THINE HERITAGE, the possession of Jehovah, WHICH DWELL...
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...
That this verse contains good tidings to the people of God, both to his ancient people, type of his church in gospel days, and to the church of the converted Gentiles, is agreed on all hands, for they...
Micah 7:14 Shepherd H7462 (H8798) people H5971 staff H7626 flock H6629 heritage H5159 dwell H7931 (H8802) solitarily...
THE PROPHET NOW PLEADS WITH YHWH TO FEED HIS PEOPLE LIKE A SHEPHERD (MICAH 7:14). In Micah 5:4 the coming King was to ‘stand and feed in the strength of YHWH'. Here Micah looks forward to that day. He...
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:...
_Feed Thy people with Thy rod, the flock of Thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old _ CHRIST’S PASTORAL C...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:14 SHEPHERD YOUR PEOPLE... YOUR INHERITANCE is a request that the Lord would feed and protect the nation (compare Deuteronomy 32:9;...
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)...
Amos 9:11; Deuteronomy 33:28; Exodus 33:16; Ezekiel 34:13; Ezekiel
Feed — So Christ directs his officers. With thy rod — In allusion to the custom of shepherds who guided their sheep by a pastoral staff. In the wood — Protect and guide those that in their present cap...