Micah 7:18

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Micah 7:14-20

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 sheep, and to go before them, while they are here in this world as in a wood, in this world but not of it. God promises in answer to this prayer, he will do that for them which shall be repeating the miracles of former ages. As their sin brought them into bondage, so God's pardoning their sin brought... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Micah 7:14-20

The Prophet's Last Supplication v. 14. Feed Thy people with Thy rod, with a true shepherd's care, the staff being the mark of the shepherd, Zechariah 11:4 ff. ; Psalms 23, the flock of Thine heritage, the possession of Jehovah, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel, rather, "in the forest in the midst of Carmel let them feed," surrounded by the richest blessings; let them teed in Bashan and Gilead, whose rich meadows were proverbial in Israel, as in the days of old,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Micah 7:1-20

See Micah 6:1 ff for the passage comments with footnotes.Chap. 7. Micah 7:1-6. The Lamentation of the People. As appears from the subjoined transitus, Micah 7:7, and especially Micah 7:8, where the holy common wealth is manifestly thought of as speaking, the speaker here is the prophet, not so much as prophet, but as organ of the ideal person, the true Israel; like Isaiah 59:1 ff; Isaiah 60:1 ff., where the prophet identifies himself with the true Israel, personified throughout Isaiah 40-66.... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Micah 7:1-20

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 both hands. Husbands could not trust their wives. At such a time there is no refuge for God’s children save in God, Micah 7:7-13 . When we have learned our lesson we find God appearing for our help. He brings forth to the light and vindicates us. Then those that hated us, and suggested that He had... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Micah 7:1-20

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, ends with the consciousness of the necessity for judgment. Following this, the people pray for the guidance of Jehovah, and Jehovah answers with a promise that He will guide them as of old. Then the prophet in faith repeats Jehovah's promise. The last movement is a great final doxology, uttered... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 7:18-20

Micah Closes His Prophecy With The Assurance of What God Will Do For His People. (Micah 7:18-20 ). As his prophecy comes to its close Micah continues by exulting in God’s pardoning goodness and in His compassionate mercy. In this message he is very much in parallel with Isaiah. See Isaiah 43:25; Isaiah 44:22. Then he declares His confidence and certainty that God will fulfil to His true people all the promises He has made to their fathers. He is to be seen both as the great Forgiver, and as... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 7:7-20

Micah 7:7-Proverbs : . 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 7:7-2 Samuel : (the time of Messianic deliverance will come); Micah 7:11-1 Chronicles : (Jerusalem will be repeopled); Micah 7:14-Proverbs : (Yahweh will renew His kindness to Israel). The first and third of these have numerous affinities with the Psalter; the second, by its... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Micah 7:18

Lest what hath been spoken of this wonderful change in the affairs of the Jews should on one hand be thought to be made for the righteousness or worthiness of this people, or else on the other hand should seem too great to be done for a sinful people, and so any should doubt whether it should be done at all, the prophet, in this and the two following verses, proposeth the ground of all this, laid on the unparalleled grace of God toward his people, who pardoneth their unrighteousness, and then... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Micah 7:14-20

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 and Gilead, the rich pasture-land east of Jordan (Numbers 32:1; Deuteronomy 32:14; Jeremiah 1:19). Micah 7:15. Marvellous] Wonders of grace, special manifestations of God’s mercy, which will be repeated in the days of Messiah, will confound and silence the enemy (Psalms 107:42; Isaiah 52:5). Micah... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Micah 7:18-20

DISCOURSE: 1217GOD’S MERCY, AS RESERVED FOR THE JEWSMicah 7:18-20. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again; he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our... read more

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