Micah:2

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* Verse 1-5 - Woe to the people that devise evil during the night , and rise early to carry it into execution ! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought , much worse to do it with design and forethought . It is of great moment to improve and employ hours of retirement and solitude in a proper manner . If covetousness reigns in the heart , compassion is banished ; and when the heart is thus engaged , violence and fraud commonly occupy the hands . The most haughty and secure in prosperity , are commonly most ready to despair in adversity . Woe to those from whom God turns away ! Those are the sorest calamities which cut us off from the congregation of the Lord , or cut us short in the enjoyment of its privileges . * Verse 6-11 - Since they say , "Prophesy not ," God will take them at their word , and their sin shall be their punishment . Let the physician no longer attend the patient that will not be healed . Those are enemies , not only to God , but to their country , who silence good ministers , and stop the means of grace . What bonds will hold those who have no reverence for God 's word ? Sinners cannot expect to rest in a land they have polluted . You shall not only be obliged to depart out of this land , but it shall destroy you . Apply this to our state in this present world . There is corruption in the world through lust , and we should keep at a distance from it . It is not our rest : it was designed for our passage , but not for our portion ; our inn , but not our home ; here we have no continuing city ; let us therefore arise and depart , let us seek a continuing city above . Since they will be deceived , let them be deceived . Teachers who recommend self-indulgence by their doctrine and example , best suit such sinners . mhcc @Micah:2:12 ,13 @ Verse 12 ,13 - These verses may refer to the captivity of Israel and Judah . But the passage is also a prophecy of the conversion of the Jews to Christ . The Lord would not only bring them from captivity , and multiply them , but the Lord Jesus would open their way to God , by taking upon him the nature of man , and by the work of his Spirit in their hearts , breaking the fetters of Satan . Thus he has gone before , and the people follow , breaking , in his strength , through the enemies that would stop their way to heaven . **** Matthew Henry 's Commentary ****

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