Micah 5:7

People] RV 'peoples.' The influence of Messiah is not to be confined to Israel. Tarrieth not for man] the mysterious dewfall, inexplicable by man, is meant.

9. Better read as a prayer: 'let thine hand be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and let all thine enemies be cut off.'

10-15. Since war and pomp have driven any higher national ideal from their minds, God will strip them of the things in which they have trusted. Micah puts chariots and idols on the same level and under the same condemnation.

11. As the centres of the oppression described in Micah 2:3.