Mihej 3:4

Croatian Bible

Zato, oni će Jahvu zazivati, a on im neće odgovoriti. Sakrit će, u ono vrijeme, lice od njih zbog zločina koje su počinili."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Then: Micah 2:3, Micah 2:4, Jeremiah 5:31

cry: Psalms 18:41, Proverbs 1:28, Proverbs 28:9, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 2:28, Ezekiel 8:18, Zechariah 7:13, Matthew 7:22, Luke 13:25, John 9:31, James 2:13

he will even: Deuteronomy 31:17, Deuteronomy 31:18, Deuteronomy 32:19, Deuteronomy 32:20, Isaiah 59:1-15, Jeremiah 33:5

as: Isaiah 3:11, Romans 2:8, Romans 2:9

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 8:18 - will not hear 2 Samuel 22:42 - unto the Lord 2 Kings 18:12 - they obeyed not Job 27:9 - Will God Isaiah 8:17 - hideth Isaiah 59:2 - hid Jeremiah 7:16 - I will Jeremiah 11:11 - cry Jeremiah 14:12 - they fast Hosea 5:6 - they James 4:3 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them,.... When all the above evils threatened them in the preceding chapters shall come upon them; when the enemy shall invade their hind, besiege their cities, and take them, and they, their families and substance, just ready to fall into their hands, they shall cry unto the Lord; or pray unto him, as the Targum, in the time of their distress; but he will not hear their prayer, so as to answer it according to their desire; that is, he will not save them from imminent danger, but deliver them up, them, and all that belong unto them, into the hands of such that shall use them as they have done others:

he will even hide his face from them at that time; turn his back upon them, and a deaf ear to them, and show them no favour, nor grant them any help and protection:

as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings; he will punish them according to the law of retaliation; as when the poor cried unto them, when they were stripping them of their substance, and they would not hearken to them, so now, when they cry unto the Lord in their distress, he will not hearken to them; and as they turned their backs, and hid their faces from those that were afflicted by them, and would show them no favour, so will the Lord deal with them; and as they exercised the utmost cruelty and barbarity that could be done, they will now be given up into the hands of cruel and merciless men, that will use them in like manner: or, "because they have done ill in their doings" b to the poor, whose cause God will defend and vindicate.

b כאשר ανθ' ων "eo quod", Sept. "quia", Drusius; "pro eo quod", Grotius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then shall they cry unto the Lord - “Then.” The prophet looks on to the Day of the Lord, which is always before his mind. So the Psalmist, speaking of a time or place not expressed, says, “There were they in great fear” Psalms 53:5. He sees it, points to it, as seeing what those to whom he spoke, saw not, and the more awfully, because he saw, with superhuman (certain) vision, what was “hidden from their eyes.” The then was not then, “in the time of grace,” but when the Day of grace should be over, and the Day of Judgment should be come. So of that day, when judgment should set in, God says in Jeremiah, “Behold I will bring evil upon them which they shall not be able to go forth of, and they will cry unto Me, and I will not hearken unto them” Jeremiah 11:11. And David, “They cried and there was none to save; unto the Lord, and He answered them not” Psalms 18:41. And Solomon; “Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he shall cry himself and shall not be heard” Proverbs 21:13. And James, “He shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy” James 2:13. The prayer is never too late, until judgment comes ; the day of grace is over, when the time of judgment has arrived. “They shall cry unto the Lord, and shall not be heard, because they too did not hear those who asked them, and the Lord shall turn His Face from them, because they too turned their face from those who prayed them.”

He will even hide His Face - He will not look in mercy on those who would not receive His look of grace. Your sins, He says by Isaiah, “have hid His face from you, that He heareth not.” O what will that turning away of the Face be, on which hangs eternity!

As - There is a proportion between the sin and the punishment . As I have done, so God hath requited me. “They have behaved themselves ill in their doings. literally have made their deeds evil.” The word rendered doings is almost always used in a bad sense, mighty deeds, and so deeds with a high hand. Not ignorantly or negligently, nor through human frailty, but with set purpose they applied themselves, not to amend but to corrupt their doings, and make them worse. God called to them by all His prophets, make good your doings Jeremiah 35:15; and they, reversing it, used diligence to make their doings evil. Jerome: “All this they shall suffer, because they were not rulers, but tyrants; not Prefects, but lions; not masters of disciples, but wolves of sheep; and they sated themselves with flesh and were fattened, and, as sacrifices for the slaughter, were made ready for the punishment of the Lord. Thus far against evil rulers; then he turns to the false prophets and evil teachers, who by flatteries subvert the people of God, promising them the knowledge of His word.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 3:4. Then shall they cry — When calamity comes upon these oppressors, they shall cry for deliverance: but they shall not be heard; because, in their unjust exactions upon the people, they went on ruthlessly, and would not hear the cry of the oppressed.