Micha 3:7

7 En de zieners zullen beschaamd, en de waarzeggers schaamrood worden; en zij zullen al te zamen de bovenste lip bewimpelen; want er zal geen antwoord Gods zijn.

Micha 3:7 Meaning and Commentary

Micah 3:7

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded,
&c.] When the events of things will make it most clearly appear to all that their visions, divinations, and prophecies, are false; they will not be able to lift up their heads, or show their faces, but shame and confusion will cover them: yea, they shall all cover their lips;
stop their mouths, hold their tongues, and be entirely and totally silenced; they will not pretend to utter any other vision or prophecy; nor be able to say one word in defence of themselves, and of what they have before prophesied; every thing in providence being contrary to what they had said, and agreeable to the words of the true prophets; or they shall cover their lips as mourners; as the Targum adds, by way of explanation; see ( Ezekiel 24:17 Ezekiel 24:22 ) . It is said ^F5 there were two gates in Solomon's temple; one called the gate of the bridegrooms, the other the gate of mourners; to those that entered the latter, if their lip was covered, it was said, he that dwells in this house comfort thee; and so the lips of the false prophets being covered may signify that they were now sorry for what they had done, at least because of the calamities on them and the people; though the former sense seems best: for [there is] no answer of God;
not that they shall be ashamed and silenced because they shall now have no answer of God, for they never had any, which this would imply; but that it shall now be most plain and clear to all that the Lord never spoke by them, and they never had any answer from him; all their visions, divinations, and prophecies, were of, themselves, and not of him; what they delivered was not the word of the Lord, but their own; and this now being discovered and manifest to everyone, wilt put them to utter silence and shame. The Targum is,

``for there is not in them a spirit of prophecy from the Lord.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 R. Jacob, Sepher Musar, c. 9. apud Drusii Proverb. class. 2. l. 21. sect. 194.

Micha 3:7 In-Context

5 Alzo zegt de HEERE, tegen de profeten, die Mijn volk verleiden; die met hun tanden bijten, en roepen vrede uit; maar die niets geeft in hun mond, tegen dien zo heiligen zij een krijg.

6 Daarom zal het nacht voor ulieden worden vanwege het gezicht, en ulieden zal duisternis zijn vanwege de waarzegging; en de zon zal over deze profeten ondergaan; en de dag zal over hen zwart worden.

7 En de zieners zullen beschaamd, en de waarzeggers schaamrood worden; en zij zullen al te zamen de bovenste lip bewimpelen; want er zal geen antwoord Gods zijn.

8 Maar waarlijk, ik ben vol krachts van den Geest des HEEREN; en vol van gericht en dapperheid, om Jakob te verkondigen zijn overtreding, en Israel zijn zonde.

9 Hoort nu dit, gij hoofden van het huis Jakobs, en gij oversten van het huis Israels! die van het gericht een gruwel hebt, en al wat recht is verkeert;