Michée 4:9

9 Pourquoi maintenant pousses-tu des cris? N'as-tu point de roi, plus de conseiller, Pour que la douleur te saisisse comme une femme qui accouche?

Michée 4:9 Meaning and Commentary

Micah 4:9

Now why dost thou cry out aloud?
&c.] Or "cry a cry" ^F23; a vehement one, or set up a most lamentable cry, as if no help or hope were to be had, but as in the most desperate condition: here the prophet represents the Jews as if they were already in captivity, and in the utmost distress, and as they certainly would be; and yet had no reason to despair of deliverance and salvation, since the Messiah would certainly come to them, and his kingdom would be set up among them, The word used has sometimes the notion of friendship and association; hence the Targum renders it,

``now why art thou joined to the people?''

and so Jarchi,

``thou hast no need to seek friends and lovers, the kings of Egypt and Assyria, for help.''

And which sense of the word as approved by Gussetius ^F24. [Is there] no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished?
he it so that they were; as was the case when Zedekiah was taken and carried captive, and his princes, nobles, and counsellors killed; yet God, their King and Counsellor, was with them, to keep and preserve them, counsel, instruct, and comfort them, and at last to deliver and save them; and the King Messiah would be raised up, and sent unto them in due time, who is the Wonderful Counsellor Isaiah had prophesied of: for pangs have taken thee as a worn an in travail;
which is often expressive of great sufferings and sorrows; and yet, as the pangs of a woman in travail do not continue always, but have an end, so would theirs, and therefore there was no reason for despair; and as, when she brings forth her issue, her sorrow is turned into joy, this would be their case.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (er yeyrt hml) "quid vociferabis vociferationem", Pagninus, Montanus. So Vatablus, Drusius.
F24 Ebr. Comment. p. 789.

Michée 4:9 In-Context

7 Des boiteux je ferai un reste, De ceux qui étaient chassés une nation puissante; Et l'Eternel régnera sur eux, à la montagne de Sion, Dès lors et pour toujours.

8 Et toi, tour du troupeau, colline de la fille de Sion, A toi viendra, à toi arrivera l'ancienne domination, Le royaume de la fille de Jérusalem.

9 Pourquoi maintenant pousses-tu des cris? N'as-tu point de roi, plus de conseiller, Pour que la douleur te saisisse comme une femme qui accouche?

10 Fille de Sion, souffre et gémis comme une femme qui accouche! Car maintenant tu sortiras de la ville et tu habiteras dans les champs, Et tu iras jusqu'à Babylone; Là tu seras délivrée, C'est là que l'Eternel te rachètera de la main de tes ennemis.

11 Maintenant plusieurs nations se sont rassemblées contre toi: Qu'elle soit profanée, disent-elles, Et que nos yeux se rassasient dans Sion!