Micah 7:1-7

Wait for the God of Salvation

1 Woe is me! For I have become ¹as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no ²first-ripe fig that my soul desires.

2 ³The godly has perished from the earth, and ⁴there is no one upright among mankind; ⁵they all lie in wait for blood, and ⁶each hunts the other with a net.

3 ⁷Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; ⁸the prince and ⁹the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

4 The best of them is ¹⁰like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of ¹¹your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; ¹²now their confusion is at hand.

5 ¹³Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard ¹⁴the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;^[a]

6 for ¹⁵the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; ¹⁶a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

7 But as for me, I will look to the LORD; ¹⁷I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

Micah 7:1-7 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.

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 24:13; [Isaiah 17:6]
• 2. Hosea 9:10
• 3. [Psalms 12:1; Isaiah 57:1]
• 4. Psalms 14:1, 3
• 5. [Psalms 10:9; Hosea 6:8, 9]
• 6. Isaiah 9:19
• 7. [Zephaniah 3:7]
• 8. [Psalms 82:1, 2]
• 9. Micah 3:11
• 10. [2 Samuel 23:6, 7; Nahum 1:10]; See Ezekiel 2:6
• 11. See Ezekiel 33:2
• 12. [Micah 3:6, 7; Isaiah 22:5]
• 13. Jeremiah 9:4
• 14. [Psalms 141:3]
• 15. Ezekiel 22:7; [Matthew 10:21, 35; Luke 12:53]
• 16. Cited Matthew 10:36
• 17. [Lamentations 3:26]

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew bosom