Mihej 3:7

Croatian Bible

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the seers: Exodus 8:18, Exodus 8:19, Exodus 9:11, 1 Samuel 9:9, Isaiah 44:25, Isaiah 47:12-14, Daniel 2:9-11, Zechariah 13:4, 2 Timothy 3:8, 2 Timothy 3:9

cover: Leviticus 13:45, Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:22

lips: Heb. upper lip

no: 1 Samuel 14:37, 1 Samuel 28:6, 1 Samuel 28:15, Psalms 74:9, Amos 8:11

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 33:18 - the seers Jeremiah 27:9 - hearken Lamentations 2:9 - her prophets Lamentations 4:14 - have wandered Ezekiel 3:26 - and shalt Ezekiel 20:3 - As I Zechariah 11:17 - the sword Malachi 2:9 - made Matthew 15:14 - And if Luke 6:39 - shall 2 Peter 1:21 - spake

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded,.... When the events of things will make it most clearly appear to all that their visions, divinations, and prophecies, are false; they will not be able to lift up their heads, or show their faces, but shame and confusion will cover them:

yea, they shall all cover their lips; stop their mouths, hold their tongues, and be entirely and totally silenced; they will not pretend to utter any other vision or prophecy; nor be able to say one word in defence of themselves, and of what they have before prophesied; every thing in providence being contrary to what they had said, and agreeable to the words of the true prophets; or they shall cover their lips as mourners; as the Targum adds, by way of explanation; see Ezekiel 24:17. It is said e there were two gates in Solomon's temple; one called the gate of the bridegrooms, the other the gate of mourners; to those that entered the latter, if their lip was covered, it was said, he that dwells in this house comfort thee; and so the lips of the false prophets being covered may signify that they were now sorry for what they had done, at least because of the calamities on them and the people; though the former sense seems best:

for [there is] no answer of God; not that they shall be ashamed and silenced because they shall now have no answer of God, for they never had any, which this would imply; but that it shall now be most plain and clear to all that the Lord never spoke by them, and they never had any answer from him; all their visions, divinations, and prophecies, were of, themselves, and not of him; what they delivered was not the word of the Lord, but their own; and this now being discovered and manifest to everyone, wilt put them to utter silence and shame. The Targum is,

"for there is not in them a spirit of prophecy from the Lord.''

e R. Jacob, Sepher Musar, c. 9. apud Drusii Proverb. class. 2. l. 21. sect. 194.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They shall cover their lips - Literally, the hair of the upper lip . This was an action enjoined on lepers Leviticus 13:45, and a token of mourning Ezekiel 24:17, Ezekiel 24:22; a token then of sorrow and uncleanness. With their lips they had lied, and now they should cover their lips, as men dumb and ashamed. “For there is no answer of God,” as these deceivers had pretended to have. When all things shall come contrary to what they had promised, it shall be clear that God did not send them. And having plainly no answer of God, they shall not dare to feign one then. Jerome: “Then not even the devils shall receive power to deceive them by their craft. The oracles shall be dumb; the unclean spirit shall not dare to delude.” Dionysius: “All this is spoken against those who, in the Church of Christ, flatter the rich, or speak as menpleasers, out of avarice, ambition, or any like longing for temporal good, to whom that of Isaiah Isaiah 3:12 fitteth; the leaders of this people (they who profess to lead them aright) mislead them, and they that are led of them are destroyed.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 3:7. Shall the seers be ashamed — For the false visions of comfort and prosperity which they pretended to see.

And the diviners confounded — Who pretended to foretell future prosperity; for they themselves are now thralled in that very captivity which the true prophets foretold, and which the false prophets said should not happen.