Micah 7:10-13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then she that is mine enemy Namely, the Chaldean nation. Which said unto me, (namely, when she held me captive,) Where is the Lord thy God? Where is now Jehovah, whom thou worshippest, and sayest is the only God? Why does he not now deliver thee? Why does he not free thee from my hands, who am not his worshipper? Mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down, &c. As the heathen beheld the desolations of God's church and temple with delight, (see Micah 4:11,) so it shall come to my turn to see God's judgments executed upon the Babylonish empire, which shall be brought down to as low a condition as ever they had reduced God's people. In the day that thy walls shall be built, &c. When God shall visit his people, and repair their decayed estate, (compare Amos 9:11,) then the tyrannical edicts of their persecutors shall be utterly abolished. This may partly relate to the recalling those edicts, which put a stop to the rebuilding of the city and temple of Jerusalem: see Ezra 4:23-24; Ezra 6:14; Nehemiah 2:8; Nehemiah 2:17. In that day At that time also; he shall come even to thee from Assyria, &c. This may be rendered, They shall come, &c.; that is, thy restored inhabitants; and from the fortress Or rather, from Egypt, even unto the river That is, the Euphrates; for the word מצור, which we translate fortress, likewise means Egypt. All this signifies the return of the Jews from the various parts to which they had been scattered. Notwithstanding, the land shall be desolate, &c. Nevertheless the land shall, before this, be reduced to a state of desolation, on account of the heinous wickedness of those who at present inhabit it.