Miquéas 2:6

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

No profetizeis; os que profetizam, no profetizem deste modo, que se no apartar a vergonha.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
No profetizeis aos que profetizam; eles no profetizaro para eles, pois no se apartar a sua vergonha.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
No babujeis, dizem eles. No babujeis tais coisas, porque a desgraa no cair sobre ns.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Prophesy ye: etc. or, Prophesy not as they prophesy, Heb. Drop. etc. Isaiah 30:10, Jeremiah 26:8, Jeremiah 26:9, Jeremiah 26:20-23, Ezekiel 20:46, Ezekiel 21:2, Amos 2:12, Amos 7:13, Acts 4:17, Acts 5:28, Acts 5:40, Acts 7:51, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

they shall not prophesy: Psalms 74:9, Ezekiel 3:26, Amos 8:11-13

that they: Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 6:15, Jeremiah 8:11, Jeremiah 8:12

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:13 - Behold now 2 Chronicles 18:12 - Behold 2 Chronicles 18:13 - even what my God Job 29:22 - speech Isaiah 29:21 - and lay Jeremiah 5:31 - my people Jeremiah 11:21 - Prophesy Amos 2:11 - and Amos 7:16 - Prophesy Zechariah 1:4 - unto

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy,.... Or "drop not" h; such terrible words, such menacing things; let them not flow from your lips with such profusion and abundance; cease from speaking in the name of the Lord, if we can hear nothing else but sharp reproofs, and severe judgments: or the first word respects the true prophets of the Lord, and forbids their prophesying; and, according to others, the next should be rendered, "let them prophesy", or "drop" i; that is, the false prophets, that prophesy smooth things; and so the sense is, let the one prophesy, but not the other:

they shall not prophesy to them; these are the words of the Lord, in answer to the other, that since they did not like his prophets, their should no more be sent to, them, nor should drop or distil the rain of doctrine upon them; but, as a judgment upon them, should be deprived of them: or, "they shall not prophesy according to these" k; as the false prophets do, not such things as they; or the whole may be rendered thus, "prophesy not", or, "if they prophesy, let them not prophesy as these" l; such things as these; namely,

[that] shame shall not overtake them; that is, as the false prophets, who said that shame and confusion should not come upon the people of Israel, or the wrath denounced against them, but they should enjoy great peace and prosperity: but the first sense seems best, and the meaning of this clause to be, that the true prophets of the Lord should not prophesy any more to this people, since they did not choose they should: "that shame might not come upon them"; that the prophets might not be treated by them in a shameful and ignominious manner: or, as others, "shame shall not depart from them" m; though they think to escape it by forbidding the prophets prophesying terrible things to come, yet confusion will be their portion at last.

h אל תטיפו "ne stilletis", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius, Burkius, Junius Tremellius "ne stillatote", Piscator. i יטיפון "stallent isti", Junius Tremellius, Cocceius "stillanto", Piscator. k לאלה "secundum istos", Junius Tremellius, Piscator. l "Ne vaticinemini, aut si vaticinentur ne talia vaticinentur", Castalio. m לא יסג כלמות "non recedent ignominiae", De Dieu "non retroageretur summa ignominia", Cocceius; "non recederet ignominia magna", Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy; they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame - The words are very emphatic in Hebrew, from their briefness, “Prophesy not; they shall indeed prophesy; they shall not prophesy to these; shame shall not depart.” The people, the false prophets, the politicians, forbade God and Micah to prophesy; “Prophesy not.” God, by Micah recites their prohibition to themselves, and forewarns them of the consequences.

Prophesy ye not - , literally drop not. Amaziah and the God-opposing party had already given an ungodly meaning to the word . “Drop not,” “distill not,” thus unceasingly, these same words, ever warning, ever telling of “lamentation and mourning and woe Ezekiel 2:10; prophesying not good concerning us, but evil” 1 Kings 22:18. So their descendants commanded the Apostles Acts 4:18; Acts 5:40 not to speak at all or to teach in the Name of Jesus Acts 5:28. Did we not straitly command you, that ye should not teach in this Name? Acts 6:13. This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law. God answers; They shall certainly prophesy. The Hebrew word is emphatic. The prophets had their commission from God, and Him they must obey, whether Israel Ezekiel 2:5, Ezekiel 2:7 would hear or whether they would forbear. So must Micah and Isaiah Isaiah 28:9-14, Isaiah 28:22 now, or Jeremiah Jeremiah 1:7, Jeremiah 1:17; Jeremiah 26:10-15, Ezekiel, and the rest afterward. “They shall not prophesy to these.”

He does not say only, “They shall not prophesy to them,” but, to these; that is, they shall prophesy to others who would receive their words: God’s word would not be stayed; they who would hearken shall never be deprived of their portion; but to these who despise, “they shall not prophesy.” It shall be all one, as though they did not prophesy; the soft rain shall not bedew them. The barn-floor shall be dry, while the fleece is moist Judges 6:37. So God says by Isaiah; “I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it” Isaiah 5:6. The dew of God’s word shall be transferred to others. But so shame (literally shames manifold shame,) shall not depart, but shall rest upon them forever. God would have turned away the shame from them; but they, despising His warnings, drew it to themselves. It was the natural fruit of their doings; it was in its natural home with them. God spoke to them, that they might be freed from it. They silenced His prophets; deafened themselves to His words; so it departed not. So our Lord says John 9:41, Now ye say, we see; therefore your sin remaineth; and John the Immerser John 3:36, The wrath of God abideth on him. It hath not now first to come. It is not some new thing to be avoided, turned aside. The sinner has but to remain as he is; the shame encompasseth him already; and only departeth not. The wrath of God is already upon him, and abideth on him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 2:6. Prophesy ye not — Do not predict any more evils-we have as many as we can bear. We are utterly ruined-shame and confusion cover our faces. The original is singular, and expressive of sorrow and sobbing. Literally, "Do not cause it to rain; they will cause it to rain; they cannot make it rain sooner than this; confusion shall not depart from us." To rain, often means to preach, to prophesy; Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 21:2; Amos 7:16; Deuteronomy 32:2; Job 29:22; Proverbs 5:3, c.

The last line Bp. Newcome translates, "For he shall not remove from himself reproaches" and paraphrases, "The true prophet will subject himself to public disgrace by exercising his office."