Micah 7:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

lay their hand, &c Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for silence, of which it was the token their ears. Some codices, with four early printed and sign. See Job 21:5; Job 29:9; Job 40:4.

their ears. Some codices, with lour early printed editions, read "and their".

Micah 7:16

16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.