Micah 7:14

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 — or living a nation, mysteriously apart from other nations, returned from Babylon, and settled on the fruitful mountain range of Carmel, or in the rich pasture land on the east of Jordan. The extraordinary fertility of this “Land of Promise” has been recently brought into prominence, and its future prosperity predicted in glowing colours by Mr. Oliphant, in The Land of Gilead.