Micah 7:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

lick the dust. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for the utmost humiliation, as in Genesis 3:14. Compare Psalms 72:9; Isaiah 49:23.

move. come quaking.

holes. fastnesses. Hebrew. misgereth.

worms. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:24, the same word). Occurs only in these two places.

Micah 7:17

17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like wormsd of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.