Miquéas 2:3

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Portanto, assim diz o SENHOR: Eis que projeto um mal contra esta gerao, do qual no tirareis os vossos pescoos; e no andareis to altivos, porque o tempo ser mau.

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A Biblia Sagrada
Portanto, assim diz o SENHOR: Eis que projeto um mal contra esta famlia, do qual no tirareis os vossos pescoos, e no andareis to altivos, porque o tempo ser mau.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Portanto, assim diz o SENHOR: Eis que projeto mal contra esta famlia, do qual no tirareis a vossa cerviz; e no andareis altivamente, porque o tempo ser mau.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this family: Jeremiah 8:3, Amos 3:1, Amos 3:2

do: Micah 2:1, Jeremiah 18:11, Jeremiah 34:17, Lamentations 2:17, James 2:13

from: Amos 2:14-16, Amos 9:1-4, Zephaniah 1:17, Zephaniah 1:18

necks: Jeremiah 27:12, Lamentations 1:14, Lamentations 5:5, Romans 16:4

go: Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 3:16, Isaiah 5:19, Isaiah 28:14-18, Jeremiah 13:15-17, Jeremiah 36:23, Jeremiah 43:2, Daniel 4:37, Daniel 5:20-23

for: Amos 5:13, Ephesians 5:16

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:14 - General Judges 2:15 - against 2 Chronicles 18:22 - and the Lord Psalms 37:19 - in the evil Proverbs 22:16 - that oppresseth Isaiah 57:17 - the iniquity Micah 3:4 - Then

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord, behold, against this family do I devise an evil,.... Because of those evils of covetousness, oppression, and injustice, secretly devised, and deliberately committed, the Lord, who neither slumbers nor sleeps, declares, and would have it observed, that he had devised an evil of punishment against the whole nation of Israel, the ten tribes particularly, among whom these sins greatly prevailed; even an invasion of their land by the Assyrians, and the carrying of them captive from it into foreign parts:

from which ye shall not remove your necks; that is, they should not be able to deliver themselves from it; they would not be able to stop the enemy in his progress, having entered their land; nor oblige him to break up the siege of their city, before which he would sit, and there continue till he had taken it; and being carried captive by him, they would never be able to free themselves from the yoke of bondage put upon them, and under which they remain unto this day. The allusion is to beasts slipping their necks out of the collar or yoke put upon them: these sons of Belial had broke off the yoke of God's commandments, and now he will, put another yoke upon them, they shall never be able to cast off until the time of the restitution of all things, when all Israel shall be saved:

neither shall ye go haughtily; as they now did, in an erect posture, with necks stretched out, and heads lifted up high, and looking upon others with scorn and contempt; but hereafter it should be otherwise, their heads would hang down, their countenances be dejected, and their backs bowed with the burdens upon them:

for this time [is] evil; very calamitous, afflictive, and distressing; and so not a time for pride and haughtiness, but for dejection and humiliation; see Ephesians 5:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Such had been their habitual doings. They had done all this, he says, as one continuous act, up to that time. They were habitually devisers of iniquity, doers of evil. It was ever-renewed. By night they sinned in heart and thought; by day, in act. And so he speaks of it in the present. They do it. But, although renewed in fresh acts, it was one unbroken course of acting. And so he also uses the form, in which the Hebrews spoke of uninterrupted habits, They have coveted, they have robbed, they have taken. Now came God’s part.

Therefore, thus saith the Lord - Since they oppress whole families, behold I will set Myself against this whole family ; since they devise iniquity, behold I too, Myself, by Myself, in My own Person, am devising. Very awful is it, that Almighty God sets His own Infinite Wisdom against the devices of man and employs it fittingly to punish. “I am devising no common punishment, but one to bow them down without escape; “an evil from which” - He turns suddenly to them, “ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye go haughtily.” Ribera: “Pride then was the source of that boundless covetousness,” since it was pride which was to be bowed down in punishment. The punishment is proportioned to the sin. They had done all this in pride; they should have the liberty and self-will wherein they had wantoned, tamed or taken from them. Like animals with a heavy yoke upon them, they should live in disgraced slavery.

The ten tribes were never able to withdraw their necks from the yoke. From the two tribes God removed it after the 70 years. But the same sins against the love of God and man brought on the same punishment. Our Lord again spake the woe against their covetousness Luke 16:13-14; Luke 11:39; Matthew 23:14, Matthew 23:23, Matthew 23:25; Mark 12:40. It still shut them out from the service of God, or from receiving Him, their Redeemer. They still spoiled the goods Hebrews 10:34 of their brethren. In the last dreadful siege , “there were insatiable longings for plunder, searching-out of the houses of the rich; murder of men and insults of women were enacted as sports; they drank down what they had spoiled, with blood.” And so the prophecy was for the third time fulfilled. They who withdraw from Christ’s easy yoke of obedience shall not remove from the yoke of punishment; they who, through pride, will not bow down their necks, but make them stiff, shall be bent low, that they go not upright or haughtily anymore Isaiah 2:11. The Lord alone shall be exalted in that Day. For it is an evil time. Perhaps he gives a more special meaning to the words of Amos Amos 5:13, that a time of moral evil will be, or will end in, a time, full of evil, that is, of sorest calamity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 2:3. Against this family (the Israelites) do I devise an evil — You have devised the evil of plundering the upright; I will devise the evil to you of punishment for your conduct; you shall have your necks brought under the yoke of servitude. Tiglath-pileser ruined this kingdom, and transported the people to Assyria, under the reign of Hezekiah, king of Judah; and Micah lived to see this catastrophe. See on Micah 2:9.