Micah 7:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For: the prophet here gives us a reason of his advice to be wary how and whom they trust. The son; who received his being, maintenance, education, and inherits the honour as well as estate of his father; the son, obliged by most inviolable laws to please, preserve, and honour his father, dishonoureth, seeks to accuse, vilify, endanger, and ruin the father; whose dishonour and loss, or ruin, is also the son's dishonour and ruin; yet unnatural treachery will be so rife in those times, that the father had need keep his guard upon his very son. The daughter, whose love and affection are usually more tender than the sons towards parents, yet will forget their duty. Riseth up against her mother, that bare them, that nursed them, that, more than fathers, tend, indulge, and bear with them. So monstrous shall the perfidiousness of that age be. The daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: in consanguinity there was not any faithfulness, in affinity much less may you expect it. A man's enemies, the worst and most perilous enemies, who will be most ready and most able to do them mischief, are the men of his own house; among relations and retainers, who by law of God and nature should have been faithfullest friends. So it fell out through the civil wars of the Jews, in their seditious and in their calamitous days. Much like to this is that of Christ, Matthew 10:21,35,36. For: the prophet here gives us a reason of his advice to be wary how and whom they trust. The son; who received his being, maintenance, education, and inherits the honour as well as estate of his father; the son, obliged by most inviolable laws to please, preserve, and honour his father, dishonoureth, seeks to accuse, vilify, endanger, and ruin the father; whose dishonour and loss, or ruin, is also the son's dishonour and ruin; yet unnatural treachery will be so rife in those times, that the father had need keep his guard upon his very son. The daughter, whose love and affection are usually more tender than the sons towards parents, yet will forget their duty. Riseth up against her mother, that bare them, that nursed them, that, more than fathers, tend, indulge, and bear with them. So monstrous shall the perfidiousness of that age be. The daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: in consanguinity there was not any faithfulness, in affinity much less may you expect it. A man's enemies, the worst and most perilous enemies, who will be most ready and most able to do them mischief, are the men of his own house; among relations and retainers, who by law of God and nature should have been faithfullest friends. So it fell out through the civil wars of the Jews, in their seditious and in their calamitous days. Much like to this is that of Christ, Matthew 10:21,35,36. For: the prophet here gives us a reason of his advice to be wary how and whom they trust. The son; who received his being, maintenance, education, and inherits the honour as well as estate of his father; the son, obliged by most inviolable laws to please, preserve, and honour his father, dishonoureth, seeks to accuse, vilify, endanger, and ruin the father; whose dishonour and loss, or ruin, is also the son's dishonour and ruin; yet unnatural treachery will be so rife in those times, that the father had need keep his guard upon his very son. The daughter, whose love and affection are usually more tender than the sons towards parents, yet will forget their duty. Riseth up against her mother, that bare them, that nursed them, that, more than fathers, tend, indulge, and bear with them. So monstrous shall the perfidiousness of that age be. The daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: in consanguinity there was not any faithfulness, in affinity much less may you expect it. A man's enemies, the worst and most perilous enemies, who will be most ready and most able to do them mischief, are the men of his own house; among relations and retainers, who by law of God and nature should have been faithfullest friends. So it fell out through the civil wars of the Jews, in their seditious and in their calamitous days. Much like to this is that of Christ, Matthew 10:21,35,36.