Miqueas 7:4

Filipino Cebuano Bible

4 Ang tawo nga labing maayo kanila sama sa sampinit; ang labing matarung kanila dautan pa kay sa kural nga tunokon: ang adlaw sa imong mga magbalantay, bisan ang pagdu-aw kanimo, ania na; karon mao ang ilang pagkalibog.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

is a, 2 Samuel 23:6, 2 Samuel 23:7, Isaiah 55:13, Ezekiel 2:6, Hebrews 6:8

the day: Ezekiel 12:23, Ezekiel 12:24, Hosea 9:7, Hosea 9:8, Amos 8:2

thy: Isaiah 10:3, Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 10:15

now: Isaiah 22:5, Luke 21:25

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:17 - ye shall hear Judges 8:16 - thorns Nehemiah 6:2 - they thought Job 31:14 - when he Isaiah 33:15 - shaketh Jeremiah 5:5 - but these Jeremiah 6:15 - at the time Jeremiah 11:23 - the year Jeremiah 23:2 - I Jeremiah 23:12 - the year Jeremiah 46:21 - the day Jeremiah 48:44 - the year Ezekiel 9:9 - perverseness Ezekiel 28:24 - a pricking Ezekiel 33:7 - I have Nahum 1:10 - while they be Mark 13:12 - General Luke 9:7 - he 1 Timothy 6:10 - the love

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The best of them [is] as a brier,.... Good for nothing but for burning, very hurtful and mischievous, pricking and scratching those that have to do with them:

the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge; which, if a man lays hold on to get over, or attempts to pass through, his hands will be pricked, his face scratched, and his clothes tore off his back; so the best of these princes, judges, and great inch, who put on a show of goodness, and pretended to do justice, yet fetched blood, and got money out of everyone they were concerned with, and did them injury in one respect or another; or the best and most upright of the people of the land in general, that made the greatest pretensions to religion and virtue, yet in their dealings were sharp, and biting, and tricking; and took every fraudulent method to cheat, and overreach, and hurt men in their property:

the day of thy watchmen; either which the true prophets of the Lord, sometimes called watchmen, foretold should come, but were discredited and despised, will now most assuredly come; and it will be found to be true what they said should come to pass: or the day of the false prophets, as Kimchi and Ben Melech; either which they predicted as a good day, and now it should be seen whether it would be so or not; or the day of their punishment, for their false prophecies and deception of the people:

[and] thy visitation cometh; the time that God would punish the people in general for their iniquities, as! well as their false prophets, princes, judges, and great men; who also may be designed by watchmen:

now shall be their perplexity: the prince, the judge, and the great man, in just retaliation for their perplexing the cause of the poor; or of all the people, who would be surrounded and entangled with calamities and distresses, and not know which way to turn themselves, or how to get out of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The best of them is as a brier - The gentlest of them is a thorn , strong, hard, piercing, which letteth nothing unresisting pass by but it taketh from it, “robbing the fleece, and wounding the sheep.” “The most upright”, those who, in comparison of others still worse, seem so, “is sharper than a thorn hedge”, (literally, the upright, them a thorn hedge.) They are not like it only, but worse, and that in all ways; none is specified, and so none excepted; they were more crooked, more tangled, sharper. Both, as hedges, were set for protection; both, turned to injury. Jerome: “So that, where you would look for help, thence comes suffering.” And if such be the best, what the rest?

The day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh - When all, even the good, are thus corrupted, the iniquity is full. Nothing now hinders the “visitation”, which “the watchmen”, or prophets, had so long foreseen and forewarned of. “Now shall be their perplexity” ; “now”, without delay; for the day of destruction ever breakcth suddenly upon the sinner. “When they say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them” 1 Thessalonians 5:3. : “whose destruction cometh suddenly at an instant”. They had perplexed the cause of the oppressed; they themselves were tangled together, intertwined in mischief, as a thorn-hedge. They should be caught in their own snare; they had perplexed their paths and should find no outlet.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Micah 7:4. The best of them is as a brier — They are useless in themselves, and cannot be touched without wounding him that comes in contact with them. He alludes to the thick thorn hedges, still frequent in Palestine.

The day of thy watchmen — The day of vengeance, which the prophets have foreseen and proclaimed, is at hand. Now shall be their perplexity; no more wrapping up, all shall be unfolded. In that day every man will wish that he were different from what he is found to be; but he shall be judged for what he is, and for the deeds he has done.