What does Micah 7:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like wormsd of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee."
THEY SHALL LICK THE DUST LIKE A (THE) SERPENT - To lick the dust, by itself, pictures the extreme humility of persons who east themselves down to the very earth (as in Psalms 72:9; Isaiah 49:23). To l...
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...
LICK THE DUST. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the utmost humiliation, as in Genesis 3:14. Compare Psalms 72:9; Isaiah 49:23. MOVE. come quaking. HOLES. fastnesses. Hebrew. _mis...
_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....
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...
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. THEY SHALL LICK THE D...
7:17 close (e-21) Or 'fortified.'...
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 se...
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...
THEY SHALL LICK THE DUST LIKE A SERPENT. — The doom of the determined enemies of the Lord and His people recalls that of Satan, the great enemy, as personified by the serpent. “Dust shalt thou eat all...
יְלַחֲכ֤וּ עָפָר֙ כַּ † נָּחָ֔שׁ כְּ זֹחֲלֵ֣י אֶ֔רֶץ יִרְגְּז֖וּ מִ מִּסְגְּרֹֽתֵיהֶ֑ם אֶל ־יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֵ֨ינוּ֙...
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...
They shall (r) lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. (r) They will fall f...
_Serpents, (Genesis iii. 14.) out of respect or rage. (Calmet) --- Converts shall humbly apply to the ministers of Christ to receive baptism and confirmation. (Theodoret; Sanct. lxvii.)_...
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 wit...
He afterwards adds, _They shall lick the dust as a serpent _He intimates, that however the enemies of the Church may have proudly exalted themselves before, they shall then be cast down, and lie, as i...
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...
THEY SHALL LICK THE DUST LIKE A SERPENT,.... Whose food is the dust of the earth, according to the curse pronounced on it, Genesis 3:14; and which is either its, natural food it chooses to live on, as...
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. Ver. 17. _They shall lic...
_They shall lick the dust like a serpent_ They shall fall to the earth through fear, and carry themselves very humbly and submissively toward God's people. _They shall move out of their holes like wor...
The Prophet's Last Supplication...
WORMS: Or, creeping things...
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...
THEY, the proud and cruel enemies of Israel, the Babylonians, shall lick the dust; in the most submissive, servile manner testify their subjection, promise to serve and honour the Jews released out of...
Micah 7:17 lick H3897 (H8762) dust H6083 serpent H5175 crawl H7264 (H8799) holes H4526 snakes H2119 (H8801) earth H776 afraid H6342 (H8799) LORD H3068 God H430 fear H3372 (H8799) lick - Genesis 3:14-...
MICAH THEN OUTLINES WHAT THE EFFECT WILL BE ON THE NATIONS AS A RESULT OF WHAT YHWH WILL DO (MICAH 7:16) What YHWH will do will amaze the nations and will also make them ashamed of their belligerence...
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:...
EVEN A WORM WILL TURN Worms of the earth. Micah 7:17 (AV). What is your opinion about worms? Do you exclaim, _“_ Ugh! Horrible creature!” when you meet one crawling over the garden path? Or are you...
MICAH—NOTE ON MICAH 7:16 SEE AND BE ASHAMED. This describes what the nations experience when they observe God’s power (compare v. Micah 7:10). THE LORD OUR GOD. The shepherd of v. Micah 7:14 is now id...
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 represents repentant Israel confessing its c...
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)...
1 Samuel 14:11; Exodus 15:14; Genesis 3:14; Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 2:19; Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 60:14; Isaiah 64:2; Isaiah 65:25; Jeremiah 16:1
Lick the dust — In the most submissive, servile manner, testify their subjection. Holes — Their strong holds, and fastnesses. Because of thee — So that the name of Jews, shall be terrible to their ene...