Micah 5:15

And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. AND I WILL EXECUTE VENGEANCE IN ANGER AND FURY UPON THE HEATHEN, SUCH AS THEY HAVE NOT HEARD - or, as the Hebrew order favours, 'the nations that have not hearkened to my warnings.' So the Septuagint (). Remarks: (1) The prophet guards against the carnal security which the preceding glorious promises might have otherwise generated in the elect nation, by reminding them of the indignities which were awaiting their judges and princes soon. Even the Messiah, the coming Saviour, was to be smitten on the cheek-the greatest of insults-before the glory and kingdom should be fully manifested. Let us hence learn that in our own case also, if we are to win the heavenly crown, we must bear the cross, and mortify our earthly members; (2) In the a...

At last he adds, _And I will execute vengeance in wrath and in fury _He goes on with what I have just said of enemies; “I will then execute vengeance in wrath and in fury on the nations”. Here God mentions his wrath and his fury, that the faithful might feel greater confidence, that though now their enemies poured forth grievous threatening, yet this could not prevent God from aiding his people. — How so? Because if we compare the wrath and fury of God with all the terrors of men, doubtless the threats of men would appear as nothing but smoke. We now perceive the Prophet’s meaning in these words. And he says in the last place, I will execute vengeance on the nations who have not heard. Almost all interpreters join the relative, אשר, _asher _with the preceding word, גוים, _guim, _— I will then take vengeance on the _nations who have not heard, _that is, who have been rebellious against Go...

7-15 The remnant of Israel, converted to Christ in the primitive times, were among many nations as the drops of dew, and were made instruments in calling a large increase of spiritual worshippers. But to those who neglected or opposed this salvation, they would, as lions, cause terror, their doctrine condemning them. The Lord also declares that he would cause not only the reformation of the Jews, but the purification of the Christian church. In like manner shall we be assured of victory in our personal conflicts, as we simply depend upon the Lord our salvation, worship him, and serve him with diligence....

Verse Micah 5:15. _I WILL EXECUTE VENGEANCE - UPON THE HEATHEN_] And he did so; for the empires of the _Assyrians, Chaldeans_, and others, the sworn enemies of the Jews, have long since been utterly destroyed....

I WILL CUT OFF THE CITIES OF THY LAND - So God promised by Zechariah, “Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls; for I will be unto her a wall of fire round about” Zechariah 2:4. The Church shall not need the temptation of human defense; for God shall fence her in on every side. Great cities too, as the abode of luxury and sin, of power and pride, and, mostly, of cruelty, are chiefly denounced as the objects of God’s anger. Babylon stands as the emblem of the whole city of the world or of the devil, as opposed to God. Rup.: “The first city was built by Cain; Abel and the other saints heed no continuing city” Hebrews 13:14 here. Cities then will include (Rup.) “all the tumults and evil passions and ambition and strife and bloodshed, which Cain brought in among men

EXPOSITION MICAH 5:1 _§ _8_. After Zion_'_s degradation Messiah shall be born, and shall bring the world into subjection._ MICAH 5:1 This verse is joined to the preceding chapter in the Hebrew. Jerusalem is addressed, as in Micah 4:9, Micah 4:11, not the invading army. The prophet returns to the view of the misery and humiliation expressed in that passage. GATHER THYSELF IN TROOPS; or, _thou shalt gather thyself, etc. _Jerusalem must collect its armies to defend itself from the enemy. O DAUGHTER OF TROOPS. Jerusalem is thus named from t

AND I WILL EXECUTE VENGEANCE IN ANGER, AND FURY UPON THE HEATHEN,.... Or "nations" o; not the Pagan nations only, but the Papal and Mahometan ones, even all that are enemies to Christ, and his church and people: SUCH AS THEY HAVE NOT HEARD; such terrible judgments, and dreadful expressions of divine wrath and fury, by earthquakes, hailstones, c. as were never known or heard of in the world before see Revelation 16:18; or, "which have not heard" p; the people that have not heard and hearkened to the word of God, to the voice of Christ in the Gospel, but have turned a deaf ear to it, and despised it. So the Targum, "who have not received the doctrine of the law;'' but it is much more agreeable to understand it of the doctrine of the Gospel disobeyed by men, and therefore justly punished; see...

CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The siege and the smitten judge (Micah 5:1) _ 2. The smitten judge: Who he is (Micah 5:2) 3. The events of the future: (Micah 5:3) 4. The Rejected One, the Shepherd of Israel (Micah 5:4) 5. The remnant of Jacob and the kingdom (Micah 5:7) Micah 5:1. This interesting chapter presents difficulties, but they all vanish if we view all in the light of the future as revealed in the prophetic Word. Here it is necessary to divide the Word of Truth rightly,

THE PURGING OF ISRAEL. Some modern commentators, _e.g._ Wellhausen and Nowack, refer this to Micah; if so, it would anticipate the Deuteronomic denunciation of the pillars and Asherim (Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 12:3); but the general character of this Divine intervention, to secure a community purified from warfare and idolatry, rather suggests a post-exilic date, when similar references to Asherim, etc., continued to be made (_e.g._ Isaiah 27:9), Yahweh will remove from Israel its means of warfare (Zechariah 9:10; Hosea 14:3; _cf._

HEATHEN. nations....