Micah 1:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Pass ye away: i.e. go into exile.

Saphir, having thy shame, &c. Here we have contrast. Saphir. Beautytown, with beauty shamed; now es Suafir.

inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth. Hebrew not gone forth hath... Zaanan. Hebrew Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6): lo yatz'ah... tz'anan = not gone out [to weep] hath the inhabitant of Outhouse.

in the mourning... his standing. Commence. fresh sentence here; thus: "The trouble of Beth-ezel (Neighbour-town) shall be. useless neighbour". Or, "the Bystander's house will, from you, get its standing-room".

he shall receive, &c. : or, he will take from you its support.

Micah 1:11

11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.