Micah 7:4-14

4 The best of them is like a ¹briar, The most upright like a ²thorn hedge. The day when you post your watchmen, Your ³punishment will come. Then their ⁴confusion will occur.

5 Do not ⁵trust in a neighbor; Do not have confidence in a friend. From her who lies in your bosom Guard your lips.

6 For ⁶son treats father contemptuously, Daughter rises up against her mother, Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; ⁷A man's enemies are the men of his own household.

God Is the Source of Salvation and Light

7 But as for me, I will ⁸watch expectantly for the LORD; I will ⁹wait for the God of my salvation. My ¹⁰God will hear me.

8 ¹¹Do not rejoice over me, O ¹²my enemy. Though I fall I will ¹³rise; Though I dwell in darkness, the LORD is a ¹⁴light for me.

9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD Because I have sinned against Him, Until * He ¹⁵pleads my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me out to the ¹⁶light, And I will see His ¹⁷righteousness.

10 Then my enemy will see, And shame will cover her who ¹⁸said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will look on her; At that time she will be ¹⁹trampled down Like mire of the streets.

11 It will be a day for ²⁰building your walls. On that day will your boundary be extended.

12 It will be a day when they will ²¹come to you From Assyria and the cities of Egypt, From Egypt even to the Euphrates, Even from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.

13 And the earth will become ²²desolate because of her inhabitants, On account of the ²³fruit of their deeds.

14 ²⁴Shepherd Your people with Your ²⁵scepter, The flock of Your possession Which dwells by itself in the woodland, In the midst of a fruitful field. Let them feed in ²⁶Bashan and Gilead ²⁷As in the days of old.

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Micah 7:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO MICAH 7

This chapter begins with a lamentation of the prophet, in the name of the church and people of God, concerning the general depravity and corruption of the times in which he lived, Mic 7:1-6; then declares what he was determined to do for his relief in such circumstances, Mic 7:7; comforts himself and the church with a good hope and firm belief of its being otherwise and better with them, to the shame and confusion of their enemies that now rejoiced, though without just reason for it, Mic 7:8-10; with promises of deliverance, after a desolation of the land for some time, Mic 7:11-13; and with the answer returned to the prayers of the prophet, Mic 7:14,15; which would issue in the astonishment of the world, and their subjection to the church of God, Mic 7:16,17; and the chapter is concluded with admiration at the pardoning grace and mercy of God, and his faithfulness to his promises, Mic 7:18-20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 27

1. Ezekiel 2:6; Ezekiel 28:24
2. Nahum 1:10
3. Isaiah 10:3; Hosea 9:7
4. Isaiah 22:5
5. Jeremiah 9:4
6. Matthew 10:21, 35; Luke 12:53
7. Matthew 10:36
8. Habakkuk 2:1
9. Psalms 130:5; Isaiah 25:9
10. Psalms 4:3
11. Proverbs 24:17; Obadiah 12
12. Micah 7:10
13. Amos 9:11
14. Isaiah 9:2
15. Jeremiah 50:34
16. Psalms 37:6; Isaiah 42:7, 16
17. Isaiah 46:13; Isaiah 56:1
18. Joel 2:17
19. Isaiah 51:23; Zechariah 10:5
20. Isaiah 54:11; Amos 9:11
21. Isaiah 19:23-25; Isaiah 60:4, 9
22. Jeremiah 25:11; Micah 6:13
23. Isaiah 3:10, 11; Micah 3:4
24. Psalms 95:7; Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 49:10; Micah 5:4
25. Leviticus 27:32; Psalms 23:4
26. Jeremiah 50:19
27. Amos 9:11

Footnotes 8

[a]. Lit "openings of your mouth"
[b]. I.e. right dealing
[c]. Lit "Now"
[d]. Lit "become a trampled" place
[e]. Lit "he"
[f]. Lit "River"
[g]. Or "inheritance"
[h]. Or "Carmel"