Miquéas 2:7

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

vs que sois chamados a casa de Jac, tem-se restringido o Esprito do SENHOR? So estas as suas obras? E no assim que fazem bem as minhas palavras ao que anda retamente?

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
O vs que sois chamados casa de Jac, porventura encurtou-se o Esprito do SENHOR? So estas as suas obras? E no assim que fazem bem as minhas palavras ao que anda retamente?

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Tais coisas anunciadas no alcanaro a casa de Jac. Est irritado o Esprito do SENHOR? So estas as suas obras? Sim, as minhas palavras fazem o bem ao que anda retamente;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

named: Micah 3:9, Isaiah 48:1, Isaiah 48:2, Isaiah 58:1, Jeremiah 2:4, Matthew 3:8, John 8:39, Romans 2:28, Romans 2:29, Romans 9:6-13, 2 Timothy 3:5

is: Numbers 11:23, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 59:1, Isaiah 59:2, Zechariah 4:6, 2 Corinthians 6:12

straitened: or, shortened

do not: Psalms 19:7-11, Psalms 119:70, Psalms 119:71, Psalms 119:92, Psalms 119:93, Psalms 119:99-103, Jeremiah 15:16, Romans 7:13

walketh: Psalms 15:2, Psalms 84:11, Proverbs 2:7, Proverbs 10:9, Proverbs 10:29, Proverbs 14:2, Proverbs 28:18, Hosea 14:9

uprightly: Heb. upright

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 3:17 - I pray thee 1 Kings 22:8 - Let not the 1 Kings 22:13 - Behold now 2 Chronicles 18:7 - Let not the 2 Chronicles 18:13 - even what my God Psalms 33:4 - the word Proverbs 8:9 - General Isaiah 29:21 - and lay Acts 4:17 - let 2 Timothy 3:16 - and is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O [thou that art] named the house of Jacob,.... Called after that great and good man, and reckoned the people of God, and have the character of being religious persons; but, alas! have but a name, and not the thing, and are the degenerate offspring of that famous patriarch:

is the Spirit of the Lord straitened? or "shortened" n; the Spirit of the Lord in his prophets, is it to be limited and restrained according to the will of men? or, if these prophets are forbid to prophesy, and they are silenced, is not the residue of the Spirit with the Lord? cannot he raise up others to prophesy in his name? or is the Spirit of the Lord confined, as a spirit of prophesy, only to foretell good things, and not evil? may it not threaten with, punishment for sin, as well as promise peace and prosperity?, and is it to be reckoned narrow and strait, because it now does not? the fault is not in that, but in you, who make it necessary, by your conduct, that not good, but evil things, should be predicted of you:

[are] these his doings? either Jacob's doings, such things as Jacob did? did he ever forbid the prophets of the Lord from prophesying? or did he do such things as required such menaces and threatenings as now delivered by the prophets? or are these becoming such persons as go by his name? or are such works as are done by you pleasing to God? were they, no such terrible messages would be sent by his prophets: or are these the Lord's doings? are judgments the works he is continually doing and taking delight in? are they not his acts, his strange acts? did you behave otherwise than you do, you would hear nothing of this kind:

do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? that walks in a right way, and according to the rule of the divine word, in the uprightness and integrity of his heart, aiming at the honour and glory of God in all his ways? to such a man the words of the Lord by his prophets speak good things, promise him good things here and hereafter, and do him good, exhilarate his spirits, cheer, refresh, and comfort his soul.

n הקצר "abbreviatus est", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Cocceius; "decurtatus esset", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O thou that art named the house of Jacob - As Isaiah says, “Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel - which make mention of the God of Israel, not in truth, nor in righteousness. For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel” Isaiah 48:1. They boasted of what convicted them of faithlessness. They relied on being what in spirit they had ceased to be, what in deeds they denied, children of a believing forefather. It is the same temper which we see more at large in their descendants; “We be Abraham’s seed and were never in bondage to any man; how sayest Thou, ye shall be made free?” John 8:33 “Abraham is our Father” John 8:39. It is the same which John the Immerser and our Lord and Paul reproved. “Think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father” Matthew 3:9. “If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham” John 8:39-40. “Now ye seek to kill Me, a Man that hath told you the truth - This did not Abraham” Romans 2:17-28.

He is not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. - Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God, and knowest His Will and approvest the things that are more excellent” - etc. The prophet answers the unexpressed objections of those who forbade to prophesy evil. “Such could not be of God,” these said; “for God was pledged by His promises to the house of Jacob. It would imply change in God, if He were to cast off those whom He had chosen.” Micah answers; “not God is changed, but you.” God’s promise was to Jacob, not to those who were but named Jacob, who called themselves after the name of their father, but did not his deeds. “The Spirit of the Lord was not straitened”, so that He was less longsuffering than heretofore. These, which He threatened and of which they complained, were not His doings, not what He of His own Nature did, not what He loved to do, not His, as the Author or Cause of them, but theirs.

God is Good, but to those who can receive good, “the upright in heart” Psalms 73:1. God is only Loving unto Israel. He is all Love; nothing but Love: all His ways are Love; but it follows, unto what Israel, the true Israel, the pure of heart Psalms 25:10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth; but to whom? unto such as keep His covenant and His testimonies Psalms 103:17; Luke 1:50. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting; but hate them that fear Him. they becoming evil, His good became to them evil. Light, wholesome and gladdening to the healthful, hurts weak eyes. That which is straight cannot suit or fit with the crooked. Amend your crookedness, and God’s ways will be straight to you. Do not My words do good? He doth speak good words and comfortable words Zechariah 1:13. They are not only good, but do good Luke 4:32. His Word is with power. Still it is with those who “walk uprightly;” whether those who forsake not, or those who return the way of righteousness. God flattereth deceiveth not, promiseth not what He not do. He cannot “speak peace where there is no peace” Jeremiah 6:14. As He saith, “Behold the and severity of God; on them which but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness” Romans 11:22. God Himself could not make a heaven for the proud or envious. Heaven would be to them a hell.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 2:7. Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened? — This is the complaint of the Israelites, and a part of the lamentation. Doth it not speak by other persons as well as by Micah? Doth it communicate to us such influences as it did formerly? Is it true that these evils are threatened by that Spirit? Are these his doings? To which Jehovah answers, "Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?" No upright man need fear any word spoken by me: my words to such yield instruction and comfort; never dismay. Were ye upright, ye would not complain of the words of my prophets. The last clause may be translated, "Walking with him that is upright." The upright man walks by the word; and the word walks with him who walks by it.