Miqueas 2:6

6 Falsos y verdaderos profetas
«No digan semejantes cosas
—responde la gente—.
No profeticen así.
¡Esos desastres nunca nos llegarán!».

Miqueas 2:6 Meaning and Commentary

Micah 2:6

Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy
Or "drop not" ^F8; such terrible words, such menacing things; let them not flow from your lips with such profusion and abundance; cease from speaking in the name of the Lord, if we can hear nothing else but sharp reproofs, and severe judgments: or the first word respects the true prophets of the Lord, and forbids their prophesying; and, according to others, the next should be rendered, "let them prophesy", or "drop" {i}; that is, the false prophets, that prophesy smooth things; and so the sense is, let the one prophesy, but not the other: they shall not prophesy to them;
these are the words of the Lord, in answer to the other, that since they did not like his prophets, their should no more be sent to, them, nor should drop or distil the rain of doctrine upon them; but, as a judgment upon them, should be deprived of them: or, "they shall not prophesy according to these" ^F11; as the false prophets do, not such things as they; or the whole may be rendered thus, "prophesy not", or, "if they prophesy, let them not prophesy as these" ^F12; such things as these; namely, [that] shame shall not overtake them;
that is, as the false prophets, who said that shame and confusion should not come upon the people of Israel, or the wrath denounced against them, but they should enjoy great peace and prosperity: but the first sense seems best, and the meaning of this clause to be, that the true prophets of the Lord should not prophesy any more to this people, since they did not choose they should: "that shame might not come upon them"; that the prophets might not be treated by them in a shameful and ignominious manner: or, as others, "shame shall not depart from them" ^F13; though they think to escape it by forbidding the prophets prophesying terrible things to come, yet confusion will be their portion at last.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (wpyjt la) "ne stilletis", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Burkius, Junius & Tremellius; "ne stillatote", Piscator.
F9 (Nwpyjy) "stallent isti", Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius; "stillanto", Piscator.
F11 (hlal) "secundum istos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
F12 "Ne vaticinemini, aut si vaticinentur ne talia vaticinentur", Castalio.
F13 (twmlk goy al) "non recedent ignominiae", De Dieu; "non retroageretur summa ignominia", Cocceius; "non recederet ignominia magna", Burkius.

Miqueas 2:6 In-Context

4 En aquel día sus enemigos se burlarán de ustedes
cuando entonen esta canción de lamento acerca de ustedes:
«¡Estamos acabados,
totalmente arruinados!
Dios confiscó la tierra,
nos la ha quitado.
Dio nuestros campos
a los que nos traicionaron».

5 Entonces otros establecerán los límites de propiedad
y el pueblo del Señor
no tendrá voz ni voto
en cómo se reparte la tierra.

6 Falsos y verdaderos profetas
«No digan semejantes cosas
—responde la gente—.
No profeticen así.
¡Esos desastres nunca nos llegarán!».

7 ¿Debes hablar de esa manera, oh familia de Israel?
¿Tendrá paciencia el Espíritu del Señor
con semejante comportamiento?
Si ustedes hicieran lo correcto,
encontrarían consuelo en mis palabras.

8 Sin embargo, hasta este mismo instante
mi pueblo se rebela contra mí, ¡como un enemigo!
Les roban hasta la camisa
a los que confiaban en ustedes
y los dejan tan andrajosos como hombres
que regresan de la guerra.