Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Micah 7:16 - 7:16
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
shall see - the “marvelous things” (Mic 7:15; Isa 26:11).
confounded at all their might - having so suddenly proved unavailing: that might wherewith they had thought that there is nothing which they could not effect against God’s people.
lay ... hand upon ... mouth - the gesture of silence (Job 21:5; Job 40:4; Psa 107:42; Isa 52:15). They shall be struck dumb at Israel’s marvelous deliverance, and no longer boast that God’s people is destroyed.
ears ... deaf - They shall stand astounded so as not to hear what shall be said [Grotius]. Once they had eagerly drunk in all rumors as so many messages of victories; but then they shall be afraid of hearing them, because they continually fear new disasters, when they see the God of Israel to be so powerful [Calvin]. They shall close their ears so as not to be compelled to hear of Israel’s successes.