Micah 1:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.a ”

Micah 1:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore I will - Therefore I would Wail - (properly, beat, that is, on the breast). And howl - “ Let me alone,” he would say, “that I may vent my sorrow in all ways of expressing sorrow,...
Micah 1:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Judgment of Israel. The nations of the earth are summoned to take warning from the Divine judgment to be executed on Israel. Yahweh comes forth from heaven (His holy temple; cf. Habakkuk 2:2...
Micah 1:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

wail . lament. Compare the Structure above; and note weight of the prophetic "burden". dragons . jackals. owls. Hebrew daughters of. doleful cry.
Micah 1:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet here assumes the character of a mourner, that he might more deeply impress the Israelites; for we have seen that they were almost insensible in their torpidity. It was therefore nec...
Micah 1:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. I will make a wailing like the dragons - Newcome translates: - I will...
Micah 1:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I will wail and howl— "I will sympathize with my countrymen in their calamities; I will dress myself in the habit of mourning, and, like those who bewail the dead, go without my upper garment; in o...
Micah 1:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. Therefore I will wail. The prophet first shows how the coming j...
Micah 1:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judgment on Samaria and Judah Sargon destroyed Samaria, the capital of North Israel, 722 or 721. Micah, about 720 b.c., declaring ( Micah 1:6 ) that Samaria's fall has been due to its sin, announc...
Micah 1:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Dragons... owls. — Literally, jackals and ostriches. They are selected by reason of the dismal howls and screeches they make during the night.
Micah 1:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

MICAH THE MORASTHITE Micah 1:1-16 SOME time in the reign of Hezekiah, when the kingdom of Judah was still inviolate, but shivering to the shock of the fall of Samaria, and probably while Sargon...
Micah 1:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's Witness against His Chosen Micah 1:1-16 Micah was contemporary with Isaiah and Hosea. Jeremiah quotes from him. Compare Micah 3:12 and Jeremiah 26:18 . In Micah 1:1-4 the prophet s...
Micah 1:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The first message of Micah consists of a summons, a proclamation of Jehovah, and a prophetic message based on the proclamation. This division ends with an account of the intenuption of the false prop...
Micah 1:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is a great sameness between the writings of Isaiah and Micah; their vision opens much alike, only Micah's vision is concerning Samaria and Jerusalem; and Isaiah's of Judah and Jerusalem. Samari...
Micah 1:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked ,.... To his shut, putting off his upper garment; the rough one, such as the prophets used to wear; which he did as the greater sign of h...
Micah 1:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. Ver. 8. Therefore I will wail and howl ] Good men are usually more...
Micah 1:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therefore I will wail and howl I will mourn and lament. I will go stripped and naked That is, without an upper garment; or with garments rent and torn. This would fitly denote the naked condition...
Micah 1:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments Predicted. B. C. 743. 8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped a...
Micah 1:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Therefore, because of those dreadful slaughters and devastations made in Israel and Samaria, I will wail, solemnly, as when they who are skilful in lamentation do at funerals bewail in most affec...
Micah 1:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES . Micah 1:3 . Tread upon the proud and idolatrous (high places) people, as Ruler over all the earth. Micah 1:4 .] Imagery from storms and earthquakes, to describe the terr...
Micah 1:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 1:1 . Micah the Morasthite, alluding to a village in the tribe of Judah, near the city of Eleuthera, which distinguishes him from the prophet Micaiah, who foretold the defeat of Ahab. 1 Kin...
Micah 1:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

For her wound is incurable Moral incurableness Samaria and Jerusalem were, in a material and political sense, in a desperate and hopeless condition. I. Moral incurableness is a condition in...
Micah 1:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 1:1-2:13 Part I. THREATENINGS AND JUDGMENTS ON ISRAEL AND JUDAH , WITH PREDICTION OF EVENTUAL DELIVERANCE . Micah 1:1 The inscription, or headin...
Micah 1:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Therefore, on account of the calamity which would strike Samaria and Judah, I will wail and howl, in a most bitter and mournful cry, I will go stripped and naked, robbed by the enemies and depriv...
Micah 1:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 16:9 ; Isaiah 20:2-4 ; Isaiah 21:3 ; Isaiah 22:4 ; Jeremiah 4:19 ; Jeremiah 48:36-39 ; Jeremiah 9:1 ; Jeremiah 9:10 ; Jeremiah 9:19 ; Job 30:29 ; Psalms 102:6
Micah 1:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Therefore — Because of those dreadful slaughters in Israel and Samaria. And naked — As one that in bitterness of passion hath cast off his upper garment. Dragons — Or rather, Jackals, which haunt d...

Micah 1:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Micah 1:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 1:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Micah 1:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 1:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Micah 1:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Micah 1:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Micah 1:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 1:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 1:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Micah 1:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Micah 1:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Micah 1:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Micah 1:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Micah 1:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Micah 1:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 1:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Micah 1:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Micah 1:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Micah 1:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 1:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Micah 1:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Micah 1:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Micah 1:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 1:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes