Micah 1:8-9 WEB

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Micah 1:8-16

Lamentation Over Judah's Chastisement v. 8. 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 his upper garment, that is, in the condition of a captive; I will make a wailing like the dragons, like the jackals of the desert, and mourning as the owls, like ostriches crying in pain. Cf Job 30:29. v. 9. For her wound is incurable, deadly her... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Micah 1:1-16

FIRST DIVISIONFIRST DISCOURSEMicah 1:01 Word of Jehovah, which came to Micah the Morasthite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.2Hear, all ye peoples,Attend, O earth,1 and all that is therein!And let the Lord, Jehovah, be a witness against you,The Lord from his holy temple.3 For, behold Jehovah cometh forth out of his place,And cometh down, and treadeth on the high places of the earth.4And the mountains melt under him,And the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Micah 1:1-16

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 nations to behold the just punishment which Jehovah would mete out to His faithless people. Micah 1:5-6 portray the desolation of Samaria . Destruction would settle on the homes and fields of men, and the prospect of this so affected the prophet that he divested himself of outer garment and... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Micah 1:1-16

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 prophets, and finally the promise of ultimate deliverance. In the summons the prophet had clearly in mind the attitude of Jehovah toward the whole earth. All peoples are called upon to attend. Israel was Jehovah's medium of teaching, if not in blessing, then in judgment. He witnesses among the nations... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 1:2-9

Micah 1:2-1 Samuel : . 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, Isaiah 63:15, Psalms 114), and down ( cf. Exodus 19:11) upon the heights ( Amos 4:13), His presence being revealed as by earthquake shock ( cf. Isaiah 24:19) and volcanic eruption ( Micah 1:2-Numbers :). The moral rebellion of the northern kingdom is concentrated in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Micah 1:8

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 manner to stir up the like sorrow in others: see Amos 5:16. And howl; the same in a word of like sense, to ascertain the thing, and to intimate the doubled sorrow, the multiplied miseries of this people. I will go stripped and naked; as one spoiled of his clothes by force, or as one that in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Micah 1:9

Her wound is incurable; the wounds of Samaria and the ten tribes; her own sins, God’s just displeasure, and the enemy’s rage have deeply wounded her, she is senseless, impenitent, and furious against her Physician, and she shall at last die by sword, famine, pestilence, and captivity. It is come unto Judah; the contagion of her sins, and the indignation of God against it, and the enemy’s successes, viz. Sennacherib’s, or Nebuchadnezzar’s, like a flood have reached to Judah also; and this is the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Micah 1:3-9

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 judgments (Psalms 18:8). The similes, “like wax.” (as in Psalms 68:3), and “like water,” are intended to express the complete dissolution of mountains and valleys. “The actual facts answering to this description are the destructive influences exerted upon nature by great national judgments” [Keil].... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Micah 1:1-16

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 Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem ( Micah 1:1 ).So he introduces himself Micah; the city from which he hailed, Morasthite; the time of his prophecy, it is about the same time that Isaiah was prophesying. He was a contemporary to Isaiah.As we go back in the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Micah 1:1-16

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 22:8. In the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. Micah was therefore contemporary with Isaiah, having begun to prophesy after the death of Uzziah, and continued his ministry during part of the reign of Hezekiah. Jeremiah 26:18. Micah 1:2 . Hear, all ye people; hearken, oh earth. He opened... read more