Micah 7:8-20

Israel Will Rise

8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

9 Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the LORD’s wrath, until he pleads my case and upholds my cause. He will bring me out into the light; I will see his righteousness.

10 Then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame, she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her downfall; even now she will be trampled underfoot like mire in the streets.

11 The day for building your walls will come, the day for extending your boundaries.

12 In that day people will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates and from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.

13 The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the result of their deeds.

Prayer and Praise

14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands.^[a]Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.

15 “As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show them my wonders.”

16 Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their power. They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears will become deaf.

17 They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the LORD our God and will be afraid of you.

18 Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.

19 You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

20 You will be faithful to Jacob, and show love to Abraham, as you pledged on oath to our ancestors in days long ago.

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Micah 7:8-20 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 39

1. S Psalms 22:17; S Proverbs 24:17; S Micah 4:11
2. Psalms 20:8; Psalms 37:24; S Amos 9:11
3. S 2 Samuel 22:29; Isaiah 9:2
4. Lamentations 3:39-40
5. S Psalms 119:154
6. S Psalms 107:10
7. Isaiah 46:13
8. S Psalms 35:26
9. S Psalms 42:3
10. S Isaiah 51:23
11. S 2 Samuel 22:43; S Job 40:12; S Isaiah 5:5; Zechariah 10:5
12. Isaiah 54:11; S Amos 9:11
13. S Isaiah 11:11
14. Isaiah 19:23-25; Isaiah 60:4
15. Isaiah 3:10-11; S Ezekiel 12:19; S Ezekiel 33:28-29
16. S Psalms 28:9; S Micah 5:4
17. Psalms 23:4
18. Psalms 95:7
19. S Isaiah 33:9
20. S Song of Songs 4:1; S Jeremiah 50:19
21. Ezekiel 36:11
22. S Exodus 3:20; Psalms 78:12
23. Isaiah 26:11
24. S Judges 18:19
25. S Genesis 3:14
26. 2 Samuel 22:46
27. Isaiah 25:3; Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 59:19
28. S Exodus 8:10; S 1 Samuel 2:2
29. S Isaiah 43:25; S Jeremiah 50:20; Zechariah 3:4
30. S 2 Chronicles 6:21; Psalms 103:8-13
31. S Joel 2:32; S Amos 5:15; S Micah 2:12
32. S Exodus 34:9
33. S Psalms 103:9; S Isaiah 54:9
34. S 2 Chronicles 30:9; S Jeremiah 31:20; Jeremiah 32:41; S Ezekiel 18:23
35. S Isaiah 43:25
36. S Jeremiah 31:34
37. Galatians 3:16
38. Deuteronomy 7:8; Luke 1:72
39. Psalms 108:4

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or "in the middle of Carmel"