Miquéas 1:12

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Porque a moradora de Marote teve dor pelo bem; porque desceu do SENHOR o mal at porta de Jerusalm.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Porque a moradora de Marote sofre pelo bem; porque desceu do SENHOR o mal at porta de Jerusalm.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Pois a moradora de Marote suspira pelo bem, porque desceu do SENHOR o mal at porta de Jerusalm.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Maroth: Ruth 1:20

waited carefully: or, was grieved, 1 Samuel 4:13, Job 30:26, Isaiah 59:9-11, Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 14:19

but: Micah 1:9, Isaiah 45:7, Amos 3:6

Reciprocal: Isaiah 24:12 - General Jeremiah 5:27 - so are Ezekiel 7:25 - and they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good,.... Or, "though [they] waited for good" r; expected to have it, yet the reverse befell them: or "verily [they were] grieved for good" s; for the good things they had lost, or were likely to lose; and which they had no more hope of, when they saw Jerusalem in distress. Grotius thinks, by transposition of letters, Ramoth is intended by Maroth, or the many Ramahs which were in Judah and Benjamin; but Hillerus t is of opinion that Jarmuth is meant, a city of Judah, Joshua 15:35; the word Maroth signifies "bitterness"; see Ruth 1:20; and, according to others, "rough places"; and may design the inhabitants of such places that were in great bitterness and trouble because of the invasion of the enemy, who before that had promised themselves good things, and lived in the expectation of them:

but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem; meaning the Assyrian army under Sennacherib, which came into the land of Judea by the order, direction, and providence of God, like an overflowing flood; which spread itself over the land, and reached to the very gates of Jerusalem, which was besieged by it, and threatened with destruction: or "because evil came down", c. that is, "because" of that, the inhabitants of Maroth grieved, or were in pain, as a woman in travail.

r כי "quamvis". s כי חלה לטוב "certe doluit propter bonum", Vatablus "siquidem doluit", Pagninus, Montanus; "quia doluit propter bonum", Burkius. t Onomast. p. 87, 951.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the inhabitant of Maroth - (bitterness) waited carefully for good She waited carefully for the good which God gives, not for the Good which God is. She looked, longed for, good, as men do; but therewith her longing ended. She longed for it, amid her own evil, which brought God’s judgments upon her. Maroth is mentioned here only in Holy Scripture, and has not been identified. It too was probably selected for its meaning. The inhabitant of bitternesses, she, to whom bitternesses, or, it may be, rebellions, were as the home in which she dwelt, which ever encircled her, in which she reposed, wherein she spent her life, waited for good! Strange contradiction! yet a contradiction, which the whole un-Christian world is continually en acting; nay, from which Christians have often to be awakened, to look for good to themselves, nay, to pray for temporal good, while living in bitternesses, bitter ways, displeasing to God. The words are calculated to be a religious proverb. “Living in sin,” as we say, dwelling in bitternesses, she looked for good! Bitternesses! for it is Jeremiah 2:19 an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that My fear is not in thee.

But evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem - It came, like the sulphur and fire which God rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, but as yet to the gate of Jerusalem, not upon itself. : “Evil came down upon them from the Lord, that is, I was grieved, I chastened, I brought the Assyrian upon them, and from My anger came this affliction upon them. But it was removed, My Hand prevailing and marvelously rescuing those who worshiped My Majesty. For the trouble shall come to the gate. But we know that Rabshakeh, with many horsemen, came to Jerusalem and all-but touched the gates. But he took it not. For in one night the Assyrian was consumed.” The two for’s are seemingly coordinate, and assign the reasons of the foreannounced evils, Micah 1:3-11 on man’s part and on God’s part. On man’s part, in that he looked for what could not so come, good: on God’s part, in that evil, which alone could be looked for, which, amid man’s evil, could alone be good for man, came from Him. Losing the true Good, man lost all other good, and dwelling in the bitterness of sin and provocation, he dwelt indeed in bitterness of trouble.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 1:12. The inhabitant of Maroth — There was a city of a similar name in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:59.