Micah 3:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips;a for there is no answer of God. ”

Micah 3:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They shall cover their lips - Literally, the hair of the upper lip . This was an action enjoined on lepers Leviticus 13:45 , and a token of mourning Ezekiel 24:17 , Ezekiel 24:22 ; a token the...
Micah 3:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover (f) their lips; for [there is] no answer of God. (f) When God will reveal them to the world, they will be afra...
Micah 3:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Unjust Rulers and False Prophets of Judah. Micah first addresses those whose official duty it is to know justice, i.e. sympathetically, and declares that in fact they love its opposite, and c...
Micah 3:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
Micah 3:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He confirms the same thing in the next verse, And ashamed shall be the seers and confounded the diviners, (102) and they shall cover their lip; that is they will put veils on their mouth...
Micah 3:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. Shall the seers be ashamed - For the false visions of comfort and...
Micah 3:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded...
Micah 3:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Wickedness in High Places Micah returns to his indictment against the people's leaders. Their power was given for the sake of justice, and they have abused it for extortion ( Micah 3:1-3 ). Their...
Micah 3:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They shall all cover their lips. — As the lepers, who were cut off from all communication with men, so also these false prophets, being cut off from all communion with God, were to “put a covering...
Micah 3:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE PROPHET OF THE POOR Micah 2:1-13 ; Micah 3:1-12 WE have proved Micah's love for his countryside in the effusion of his heart upon her villages with a grief for their danger greater than hi...
Micah 3:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Punishment of Avarice Micah 3:1-12 The princes who as magistrates should have administered justice to others sat around the caldron, casting in the very flesh and skin of the people whom th...
Micah 3:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Addressing himself directly to the rulers of the people, in this second message the prophet describes their peculiar sin, and announces the coming judgment. He then foretells the coming of the one tr...
Micah 3:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

But here we have the most awful account, when the ministers of God, or the pretenders to that ministry, are given up to a deluded mind. While the Lord keeps his sanctuary pure, and the streams unpoll...
Micah 3:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded ,.... When the events of things will make it most clearly appear to all that their visions, divinations, and prophecies, are false; they...
Micah 3:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for [there is] no answer of God. Ver. 7. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confo...
Micah 3:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therefore night shall be unto you Darkness, uncertainty, perplexity, and heavy troubles, shall be to you prophets; that ye shall not have a vision You shall see your predictions so fully confuted...
Micah 3:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Crimes of the Princes and Prophets. B. C. 726. 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O hea...
Micah 3:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Then; in the days of this calamity, which shall confute all the flattering promises of these prophets. The seers, who called themselves, were accounted by others, and were advised with as men tha...
Micah 3:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Micah's Indictment of Judah ( Micah 3:1-8 ). Micah inveighs first against the leadership of Judah, and then against the prophets who make people err for the sake of money, and the priests who teac...
Micah 3:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Micah 3:5 . Prophets ] False prophets flatter and promise security from judgment. Bite ] Like serpents; cry, Peace ] When they are doing mischief. Prepare ] Lit. “ sanctify...
Micah 3:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 3:10 . They build up Zion with blood. The Chaldaic reads, they build up the houses of Zion with blood. They oppress the poor to a premature death, in order to build their town and country ho...
Micah 3:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make My people err False prophets Here the prophet attacks the false prophets, as before he had attacked the “princes. ” I. They are DECEIV...
Micah 3:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Verse 3:1-5:15 Part II . DENUNCIATION OF THE CRIMES OF THE GRANDEES , FOLLOWED BY A PROMISE OF THE GLORIFICATION OF ZION , THE BIRTH OF MESSIAH...
Micah 3:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sins of the Rulers and the Desolation of Zion. Also in this Chapter the discourse is directed to the nobility of the people, who abused the authority of their high official station by oppressi...
Micah 3:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 14:37 ; 1 Samuel 28:15 ; 1 Samuel 28:6 ; 1 Samuel 9:9 ; 2 Timothy 3:8 ; 2 Timothy 3:9 ; Amos 8:11 ; Daniel 2:9-11 ; Exodus 8:18 ; Exodus 8:19 ; Exodus 9:11 ; Ezekiel 24:17 ; Eze...
Micah 3:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The seers — So called by the deceived people. Cover their lips — Mourners did thus, Ezekiel 24:17 , Ezekiel 24:22 . So these shall mourn and pine in their shame. No answer — Because the answer th...

Micah 3:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Micah 3:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Micah 3:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 3:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Micah 3:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 3:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Micah 3:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Micah 3:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 3:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Micah 3:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Micah 3:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Micah 3:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Micah 3:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Micah 3:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Micah 3:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Micah 3:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 3:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Micah 3:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Micah 3:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Micah 3:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Micah 3:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Micah 3:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Micah 3:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Micah 3:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Micah 3:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 3:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes