Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
Yet will I bring an heir unto thee - rather, 'the heir.' As thou art now occupied by possessors who expelled the former inhabitants, so will I bring "yet" again the new possessor-namely, the Assyrian foe. Other heirs will supplant us in every inheritance but that of heaven. There is a play upon the meaning of Mareshah, an inheritance: there shall come the new heir of the inheritance.
He shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel - so called as being superior in situation; when it and the neighbouring cities fell, Israel's glory was gone. Maurer, as margin, translates, 'the glory of Israel (her chief citizens: answering to "thy delicate children," Micah 1:16) shall come (in flight) to Adullam.' The English version better preserves the parallelism, "the heir," in the first clause, answering to "he" in the second.