Micah 1:8

Therefore I will weep and wail, 1 I will go barefoot and arom (half-naked); 1 I will wail like the jackals, 1 and mourn like the ostriches. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

In Context

7And all the pesilim thereof shall be beaten to pieces, 1 and all the etnan (temple proceeds of cult prostitution) shall be burned with the eish, 1 and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate; 1 for she + 1:7 i.e., Shomron gathered of the etnan (wage) of a zonah, 1 and they shall revert to the etnan (wage) of a zonah. 1

9For her wound is incurable; 1 for it is come unto Yehudah; 1 it is come unto the sha'ar ami (gate of my people) 1 even to Yerushalayim. 1

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Cross References

Esther 4:1When Mordechai perceived all that was done, Mordechai rent his garments, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a zeakah gedolah umarah (loud and a bitter wailing);

Psalms 102:6By reason of the voice of my groaning 1 my atzmot have deveykus to my basar. 1

Isaiah 16:9Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Yazer 1 the gefen of Sivmah; 1 I will water thee with my tears, 1 O Cheshbon, and Elealeh; 1 for the shouting for thy summer fruits 1 and for thy katzir has fallen away. 1

Isaiah 21:3Therefore are my loins filled with pain; 1 tzirim (pangs) have taken hold upon me, 1 as the tzirim (pangs) of a woman in labor; 1 I was bowed down at the hearing of it; 1 I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 1

Jeremiah 4:19My innards, my innards! 1 I am pained at my very lev; 1 my lev is pounding in me; 1 I cannot keep silent, 1 because thou hast heard, O my nefesh, the kol shofar (sound of the shofar), 1 the teru'at milchamah (battle alarm of war). 1

Jeremiah 9:10And I will make Yerushalayim a heap of ruins, 1 and a ma'on of jackals; 1 and I will make the towns of Yehudah desolate, 1 without an inhabitant.

Matthew Henry on Micah 1:2-8

Micah We shall have some account of this prophet in the first verse of the book of his prophecy; and therefore shall here only observe that, being contemporary with the prophet Isaiah (only that he began to prophesy a little after him), there is a near resemblance between that prophet's prophecy and this; and there is a prediction of the advancement and establishment of the gospel-church, which both of them have, almost in the same words, that out of the mouth of two such witnesses so great a word might be… Read the whole commentary →

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