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Micah 1:8
Dragons... owls. — Literally, jackals and ostriches. They are selected by reason of the dismal howls and screeches they make during the night.
Dragons... owls. — Literally, jackals and ostriches. They are selected by reason of the dismal howls and screeches they make during the night.
Verse 8. _I WILL MAKE A WAILING LIKE THE DRAGONS_] _Newcome_ translates: - I will make a wailing like the foxes, (or jackals,) And mourning like the daughters of the ostrich. This beast, the _jacka...
THEREFORE I WILL - Therefore I would WAIL - (properly, beat, that is, on the breast). AND HOWL - “Let me alone,” he would say, “that I may vent my sorrow in all ways of expressing sorrow, beating on...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATION THE FIRST PROPHETIC MESSAGE CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Micah 1:1) _ 2. Judgment announced (Micah 1:2) 3. The destruction of Samaria (Micah 1:6) 4. The lamentation o...
THE JUDGMENT OF ISRAEL. The nations of the earth are summoned to take warning from the Divine judgment to be executed on Israel. Yahweh comes forth from heaven (His holy temple; _cf._ Habakkuk 2:20; I...
WAIL. lament. Compare the Structure above; and note weight of the prophetic "burden". DRAGONS. jackals. OWLS. Hebrew daughters of. doleful cry....
Micah's Lamentation 8. _Therefore I will wail_ Such exuberance of emotion specially characterizes the Jews and the Arabs; it reminds us of the Homeric heroes. The prophets did not cease to be men when...
_MICAH WEPT OVER GOD'S JUDGMENT -- MICAH 1:8-12_ : Samaria's wickedness had spread even to Jerusalem. It was so heart breaking to Micah that he said, "I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and vi...
I WILL WAIL AND HOWL— "I will sympathize with my countrymen in their calamities; I will dress myself in the habit of mourning, and, like those who bewail the dead, go without my upper garment; in orde...
SAMARIA TO BE DESTROYED. Micah 1:6-11 RV. Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I wil...
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. THEREFORE I WILL WAIL. The prophet first shows how the coming judgme...
1:8 stripped (a-13) Or 'barefooted.'...
JUDGMENT ON SAMARIA AND JUDAH Sargon destroyed Samaria, the capital of North Israel, 722 or 721. Micah, about 720 b.c., declaring (Micah 1:6) that Samaria's fall has been due to its sin, announces a l...
STRIPPED AND NAKED] i.e. without the outer garment (cp. 1 Samuel 19:24); here used as a sign of mourning. DRAGONS] RV 'jackals.' OWLS] RV 'ostriches.' As a patriot Micah laments the calamities he pred...
MICAH SPEAKS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ALL THE NATIONS MICAH _LES PAINTER_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF MICAH ‘_People, the *LORD told you what goodness is. This is what the *LORD wants you to do. Be fair to ot...
Micah weeps as he speaks God’s judgement. He feels as God feels. Micah has seen what will happen to Samaria. He knows that the situation is hopeless. There is no remedy for Samaria’s problems. God’s j...
עַל ־זֹאת֙ אֶסְפְּדָ֣ה וְ אֵילִ֔ילָה אֵילְכָ֥ה _שֹׁולָ֖ל_
MICAH THE MORASTHITE Micah 1:1 SOME time in the reign of Hezekiah, when the kingdom of Judah was still inviolate, but shivering to the shock of the fall of Samaria, and probably while Sargon the dest...
GOD'S WITNESS AGAINST HIS CHOSEN Micah 1:1-16 Micah was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea. Jeremiah quotes from him. Compare Micah 3:12 and Jeremiah 26:18. In Micah 1:1-4 the prophet _summons the n...
The first message of Micah consists of a summons, a proclamation of Jehovah, and a prophetic message based on the proclamation. This division ends with an account of the intenuption of the false proph...
Naked. Ill clothed, (Haydock) to shew the approaching calamity of the Israelites, Isaias xx. (Menochius) --- Septuagint and Chaldean explain all of the people, (Calmet) or of Samaria. "Therefore shall...
There is a great sameness between the writings of Isaiah and Micah; their vision opens much alike, only Micah's vision is concerning Samaria and Jerusalem; and Isaiah's of Judah and Jerusalem. Samaria...
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 here assumes the character of a mourner, that he might more deeply impress the Israelites; for we have seen that they were almost insensible in their torpidity. It was therefore necessary...
The Lord speaks in this book from His temple, and addresses all the peoples-the whole earth. That is to say, He takes His place upon His earthly throne to judge the whole earth, in testimony against a...
THEREFORE I WILL WAIL AND HOWL, I WILL GO STRIPPED AND NAKED,.... To his shut, putting off his upper garment; the rough one, such as the prophets used to wear; which he did as the greater sign of his...
_Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls._ Ver. 8. _Therefore I will wail and howl_] Good men are usually more d...
_Therefore I will wail and howl_ I will mourn and lament. _I will go stripped and naked_ That is, without an upper garment; or with garments rent and torn. This would fitly denote the naked condition...
Lamentation Over Judah's Chastisement...
Therefore, on account of the calamity which would strike Samaria and Judah, I WILL WAIL AND HOWL, in a most bitter and mournful cry, I WILL GO STRIPPED AND NAKED, robbed by the enemies and deprived of...
OWLS: _ Heb._ daughters of the owl...
8-16 The prophet laments that Israel's case is desperate; but declare it not in Gath. Gratify not those that make merry with the sins or with the sorrows of God's Israel. Roll thyself in the dust, as...
THEREFORE, because of those dreadful slaughters and devastations made in Israel and Samaria, I WILL WAIL, solemnly, as when they who are skilful in lamentation do at funerals bewail in most affective...
Micah 1:8 wail H5594 (H8799) howl H3213 (H8686) go H3212 (H8799) stripped H7758 (H8675) H7
CONTENTS: Jehovah's case against Israel. Impending judgment. CHARACTERS: God, Micah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: There comes a time when men who have persisted in sin must face ruin without...
Micah 1:1. _Micah the Morasthite,_ alluding to a village in the tribe of Judah, near the city of Eleuthera, which distinguishes him from the prophet Micaiah, who foretold the defeat of Ahab. 1 Kings 2...
_For her wound is incurable _ MORAL INCURABLENESS Samaria and Jerusalem were, in a material and political sense, in a desperate and hopeless condition. I. Moral incurableness is a condition into wh...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 1:2 The Announcement of Judgment on Israel and Judah. The first major section describes (1) God’s punishment of Samaria and Judah (Micah 1:2); (2) abuses and abuse
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 1:8 GO STRIPPED AND NAKED. Wearing sackcloth (Genesis 37:34) and covering one’s head ...
CRITICAL NOTES. MICAH 1:3. TREAD upon the proud and idolatrous (high places) people, as Ruler over all the earth. MICAH 1:4.] Imagery from storms and earthquakes, to describe the terrors of God’s jud...
EXPOSITION VERSE 1:1-2:13 Part I. THREATENINGS AND JUDGMENTS ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH, WITH PREDICTION OF EVENTUAL DELIVERANCE. MICAH 1:1 The...
Shall we turn now to the book of Micah. As is the very typical opening of most of the books of the prophets, The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and He...
Isaiah 16:9; Isaiah 20:2; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 4:19;...
Therefore — Because of those dreadful slaughters in Israel and Samaria. And naked — As one that in bitterness of passion hath cast off his upper garment. Dragons — Or rather, Jackals, which haunt deso...