Miquéas 2:11

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Se houver algum que siga o seu esprito de falsidade, mentindo e dizendo: Eu te profetizarei acerca do vinho e da bebida forte; ser esse tal o profeta deste povo.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Se houver algum que, andando com esprito de falsidade, mentir, dizendo: Eu te profetizarei sobre o vinho e a bebida forte; ser esse tal o profeta deste povo.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Se houver algum que, seguindo o vento da falsidade, mentindo, diga: Eu te profetizarei do vinho e da bebida forte, ser este tal o profeta deste povo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a man: 1 Kings 13:18, 1 Kings 22:21-23, 2 Chronicles 18:19-22, Isaiah 9:15, Jeremiah 14:14, Jeremiah 23:14, Jeremiah 23:25, Jeremiah 23:32, Jeremiah 27:14, Jeremiah 27:15, Jeremiah 28:2, Jeremiah 28:3, Jeremiah 28:15, Jeremiah 29:21-23, Ezekiel 13:3-14, Ezekiel 13:22, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, 2 Thessalonians 2:8-10, 2 Peter 2:1-3, 1 John 4:1, Revelation 16:13, Revelation 16:14

walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie: or, walk with the wind and lie falsely

I will: Micah 3:5, Micah 3:11, 1 Kings 22:6, Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 8:10, Jeremiah 8:11, Jeremiah 23:17, Romans 16:18, Philippians 3:19, 2 Peter 2:13-19

he shall: Isaiah 30:10, Isaiah 30:11, Jeremiah 5:31, 2 Thessalonians 2:11

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 4:5 - all Israel 1 Kings 22:8 - good 1 Kings 22:13 - Behold now 2 Chronicles 18:5 - Go up 2 Chronicles 18:12 - Behold Isaiah 28:7 - erred Isaiah 32:7 - instruments Jeremiah 5:12 - have belied Jeremiah 20:6 - thy friends Jeremiah 23:16 - a vision Jeremiah 23:31 - use Jeremiah 29:8 - your dreams Lamentations 2:14 - prophets Ezekiel 13:4 - like Ezekiel 13:10 - others Ezekiel 21:2 - and drop Hosea 4:12 - for Hosea 7:14 - assemble Hosea 9:7 - the prophet Zephaniah 3:4 - light Zechariah 13:2 - cause Luke 6:26 - when 2 Thessalonians 2:2 - by spirit 1 Timothy 3:3 - Not given to wine 2 Timothy 4:3 - but 1 John 4:5 - and 1 John 4:6 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie,.... Who pretends to be a prophet, and a spiritual man, and to be under the inspiration and influence of the Spirit of God, but utters nothing but lies and falsehoods; or who is actuated by a spirit of falsehood and lying; or, as in the margin, "walks with the wind, and lies falsely" u; is full of wind and vanity; "after the wind" w; and follows the dictates of his vain mind, and coins lies, and speaks false things:

[saying], I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; or "drop [a word] unto thee" x; that there will be good times, and nothing but good eating and drinking; and that men need not fear such dismal things befalling them as the prophets of the Lord spoke of; but may be cheerful and merry, and drink wine and strong drink, and not be afraid of their evil tidings: or, for wine and strong drink y, so Kimchi; and the meaning is, that if they would give him a cup of wine, or a draught of strong drink, he would prophesy good things to them; the reverse of what is before said, as that they should continue in their land, and not depart from it; that this should be their rest, and they should remain therein, and not be destroyed in it, or cast out of it:

he shall even be the prophet of this people; a "dropper" z to them; see Micah 2:6; such an one shall be acceptable to them; they will caress him, and prefer him to the true prophets of the Lord; which is mentioned to show the temper of the people, and how easily they were imposed upon, and their disrespect to the prophets of the Lord, as in Micah 2:6; to which subject the prophet here returns, as Kimchi observes.

u הולך רוח ושקר כזב "qui ambulat cum vento et falsitate mentiatur", Piscator; "ambulantem cum vento et fasitate mendacem", Cocceius. w So Hillerus in Burkius. x אטיף לך "stillabo tibi", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Burkius. y ליין "pro vino", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius. z מטיף "stillator", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Drusius, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood - Literally, “in spirit” (not My Spirit) “and falsehood,” that is, in a lying spirit; such as they, whose woe Ezekiel pronounces Ezekiel 13:3, “Woe unto the foolish prophets who walk after their own spirit and what they have not seen Ezekiel 13:2, Ezekiel 13:17; prophets out of their own hearts, who prophesied a vision of falsehood, and a destruction and nothingness; prophesied falsehood; yea, prophets of the deceit of their hearts.” These, like the true prophets, “walked in spirit;” as Isaiah speaks of “walking in righteousness” Isaiah 33:15. Their habitual converse was m a spirit, but of falsehood. If such an one do lie, saying, “I will prophesy unto thee of wine and strong drink.” Man’s conscience must needs have some plea in speaking falsely of God. The false prophets had to please the rich men, to embolden them in their self-indulgence, to tell them that God would not punish. They doubtless spoke of God’s temporal promises to His people, the land “flowing with milk and honey.” His promises of abundant harvest and vintage, and assured them, that God would not withdraw these, that He was not so precise about His law. Micah tells them in plain words, what it all came to; it was a prophesying of “wine and strong drink.”

He shall even be the prophet of this people - Literally “and shall be bedewing this people.” He uses the same words, which scorners of Israel and Judah employed in forbidding to prophesy. They said, “drop not;” forbidding God’s word as a wearisome dropping. It wore away their patience, not their hearts of stone. He tells them, who might speak to them without wearying, of whose words they would never tire, who might do habitually what they forbade to God, - one who, in the Name of God, set them at ease in their sensual indulgences. This is the secret of the success of everything opposed to God and Christ. Man wants a God. God has made it a necessity of our nature to crave after Him. Spiritual, like natural, hunger, debarred from or loathing wholesome food, must be stilled, stifled, with what will appease its gnawings. Our natural intellect longs for Him; for it cannot understand itself without Him. Our restlessness longs for Him; to rest upon.

Our helplessness longs for Him, to escape from the unbearable pressure of our unknown futurity. Our imagination craves for Him; for, being made for the Infinite, it cannot be content with the finite. Aching affections long for Him; for no creature can soothe them. Our dissatisfied conscience longs for Him, to teach it and make it one with itself. But man does not want to be responsible, nor to owe duty; still less to be liable to penalties for disobeying. The Christian, not the natural man, longs that his whole being should tend to God. The natural man wishes to be well-rid of what sets him ill at ease, not to belong to God. And the horrible subtlety of false teaching, in each age or country, is to meet its own favorite requirements, without calling for self-sacrifice or self-oblation, to give it a god such as it would have, such as might content it. : “The people willeth to be deceived, be it deceived,” is a true proverb. “Men turn away their ears from the truth” 2 Timothy 4:4 which they dislike; and so are turned unto fables which they like. They who “receive not the love of the truth, - believe a lie” 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12. If men “will not retain God in their knowledge, God giveth them over to an undistinguishing mind” Romans 1:28. They who would not receive our Lord, coming in His Father’s Name, have ever since, as He said, “received them who came in their own” John 5:43. Men teach their teachers how they wish to be mistaught, and receive the echo of their wishes as the Voice of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 2:11. If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood — The meaning is: If a man who professes to be Divinely inspired do lie, by prophesying of plenty, &c., then such a person shall be received as a true prophet by this people. It not unfrequently happens that the Christless worldling, who has got into the priest's office for a maintenance, and who leaves the people undisturbed in their unregenerate state, is better received than the faithful pastor, who proclaims the justice of the Lord, and the necessity of repentance and forsaking sin, in order to their being made partakers of that holiness without which no man shall see God.