Miquéas 7:2

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Pereceu o benigno da terra, e no h entre os homens um que seja reto; todos armam ciladas para sangue; caa cada um a seu irmo com uma rede.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
J pereceu da terra o homem piedoso, e no h entre os homens um que seja justo; todos armam ciladas para sangue; cada um caa a seu irmo com a rede,

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Pereceu da terra o piedoso, e no h entre os homens um que seja reto; todos espreitam para derramarem sangue; cada um caa a seu irmo com rede.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

good: or, godly, or, merciful

is perished: Psalms 12:1, Psalms 14:1-3, Isaiah 57:1, Romans 3:10-18

they all: Proverbs 1:11, Proverbs 12:6, Isaiah 59:7, Jeremiah 5:16

hunt: 1 Samuel 24:11, 1 Samuel 26:20, Psalms 57:6, Jeremiah 5:26, Jeremiah 16:16, Lamentations 4:18, Habakkuk 1:15-17

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:9 - a mighty Genesis 34:13 - deceitfully Exodus 21:13 - lie not Deuteronomy 27:25 - General Judges 16:6 - General 2 Samuel 20:9 - Art thou 1 Kings 19:10 - thrown down 2 Chronicles 36:14 - all the chief Job 15:34 - the tabernacles Psalms 10:9 - He lieth Psalms 59:3 - they Psalms 82:8 - Arise Psalms 120:5 - Woe Proverbs 12:12 - desireth Proverbs 20:6 - but Isaiah 9:17 - for every Isaiah 9:19 - no man Isaiah 32:7 - deviseth Isaiah 59:3 - your hands Isaiah 59:4 - calleth Isaiah 59:15 - truth Jeremiah 6:7 - violence Jeremiah 7:28 - truth Jeremiah 8:6 - no Jeremiah 9:2 - an assembly Jeremiah 11:9 - General Ezekiel 7:23 - for Ezekiel 11:6 - General Ezekiel 22:12 - taken gifts Ezekiel 24:6 - Woe Hosea 4:1 - no truth Hosea 4:2 - swearing Hosea 5:1 - ye have Hosea 6:8 - polluted with blood Hosea 12:7 - he loveth Amos 2:7 - pant Micah 6:12 - the rich Habakkuk 1:4 - for Zechariah 11:6 - deliver Malachi 2:10 - why Malachi 2:16 - covereth Acts 24:9 - General Ephesians 4:14 - lie

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The good [man] is perished out of the earth,.... Here the prophet expresses in plain words what he had before delivered in figurative terms. The "good" or "godly" man, as in Psalms 12:1; is one that has received the grace of God, and blessings of grace from him, and lives a godly life and conversation; who has the good work of grace begun in him and is found in the performance of good works, and does his duty both to God and man from godly principles; and particularly is kind and merciful to the poor and needy, and those in distress. The complaint is, that there were few, or scarce any, of this character in the earth, in the land of Israel, where there used to be great numbers of them, but now they were all dead and gone; for this is to be understood, not of the perishing of their graces or comforts, much less of their perishing in their sins, or perishing eternally, but of their corporeal death:

and [there is] none upright among men; that are upright in heart and life; that have right spirits renewed in them, are Israelites indeed, in whom there is no guile; and walk uprightly, according to the rule of the divine word, truly honest, faithful men; very few such were to be found, scarce any; see Psalms 12:1;

they all lie in wait for blood; for the substance, wealth, and riches of men, which is as their blood and life; is their livelihood, that on which they live; this they wait for an opportunity to get from them, and, when it offers, greedily seize it; and stick not even to shed blood, and take away life, for the sake of gain:

they hunt every man his brother with a net; as men lay nets for fish, and fowl, and beasts, and hunt them till they have got them into them; so these men laid snares, not for strangers only, but for their own brethren, to entangle them in, and cheat and defraud them of their substance; and this they would do, even to the destruction of them, as some s render it; for the word also signifies "anathema", destruction, as well as a "net". So the Targum.

"betray or deliver his brother to destruction.''

s חרם "ad necem", Tigurine version; "anathema, caedes", Drusius; "ad occasuinem", ibid.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The, good - or godly, or merciful, the English margin

Man - The Hebrew word contains all. It is “he who loveth tenderly and piously” God, for His own sake, and man, for the sake of God. Mercy was probably chiefly intended, since it wits to this that the prophet had exhorted, and the sins which he proceeds to speak of, are against this. But imaginary love of God without love of man, or love of man without the love of God, is mere self-deceit. “Is perished out of the earth,” that is, by an untimely death. The good had either been withdrawn by God from the evil to come Isaiah 57:1, or had Leon cut off by those who laid wait for blood; in which case their death brought a double evil, through the guilt which such sin contracted, and then, through the loss of those who might be an example to others, and whose prayers God would hear. The loving and upright, all, who were men of mercy and truth, had ceased. They who were left, “all lie in wait for blood,” literally, bloods , that is, bloodshedding; all, as far as man can see; as Elijah complains that he was left alone.

Amid the vast number of the wicked, the righteous were as though they were not. Isaiah, at the same time, complains of the like sins, and that it was as though there were none righteous; “Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips hate spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth” Isaiah 59:2-3. Indirectly, or directly, they destroyed life . To violence they add treachery. The good and loving had perished, and all is now violence; the upright had ceased, and all now is deceit. “They hunt every man his brother with a net.” Every man is the brother of every man, because he is man, born of the same first parent, children of the same Father: yet they lay wait for one another, as hunters for wild beasts (Compare Psalms 35:7; Psalms 57:7; Psalms 140:6; Jeremiah 5:26).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 7:2. The good man is perished out of the earth — A similar sentiment may be found, Psalms 12:1; Isaiah 57:1. As the early fig of excellent flavour cannot be found in the advanced season of summer, or a choice cluster of grapes after vintage, so neither can the good and upright man be discovered by searching in Israel. This comparison, says Bp. Newcome, is beautifully implied.

They hunt every man his brother with a net. — This appears to be an allusion to the ancient mode of duel between the retiarius and secutor. The former had a casting net, which he endeavoured to throw over the head of his antagonist, that he might then despatch him with his short sword. The other parried the cast; and when the retiarius missed, he was obliged to run about the field to get time to set his net in right order for another throw. While he ran, the other followed, that he might despatch him before he should be able to recover the proper position of his net; and hence the latter was called secutor, the pursuer, as the other was called retiarius, or the net man. I have explained this before on Job, and other places; but because it is rarely noticed by commentators, I explain the allusion here once more. Abp. Newcome by not attending to this, has translated איש את אחיהו יצודו חרם ish eth achihu yatsudu cherem, "They hunt every man his brother for his destruction;" though he put net in the margin.