Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier; 1 the yashar ([most] upright) is sharper than a thorn hedge; 1 the yom of thy watchmen and thy pekuddah (visitation) cometh; 1 now shall their confusion follow. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

In Context

3That they may do evil with both hands skillfully, 1 the sar and the shofet asketh for a bribe; 1 and hagadol uttereth the evil of his nefesh (soul); 1 so they weave it. 1

5Trust ye not in a re'a, 1 put ye not confidence in an alluf (confidant); 1 keep the doors of thy mouth from her 1 that lieth in thy kheyk (bosom). 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 10:3And what will ye do in the Yom Pekuddah (Day Of Visitation, Reckoning) 1 and in the desolation which shall come from afar? 1 To whom will ye flee for ezrah (help)? 1 And where will ye leave your kavod (glory, riches)? 1

Isaiah 55:13Instead of the thornbush shall come up the cypress, 1 and instead of the sirpad (nettle, prickly herb) shall come up the myrtle; 1 and it shall be to Hashem for a Shem, 1 for an ot olam lo yikaret (everlasting sign that shall not be cut off). + 55:13 See Dan 9:26

Jeremiah 10:15They are hevel (vanity, delusion), and the ma'aseh (work) of delusion; 1 in the time of their pekudat (visitation, punishment) they shall perish. 1

Ezekiel 12:23Tell them therefore, Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: I will make this mashal to cease, and they shall no more use it as a mashal in Yisroel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, even the fulfillment of kol chazon.

Amos 8:2And Hashem said: Amos, what seest thou? And I said: A basket of kayitz (summer fruit). Then said Hashem unto me: 1 The ketz (end) is come upon My people Yisroel; 1 I will not again pass by them [and spare them] anymore. 1

Luke 21:25And there will be otot (miraculous signs) in the shemesh (sun) and the levanah (moon) and the kochavim (stars), and upon the earth there will be dismay among the Goyim, in perplexity at the sound of the sea and the waves;

Matthew Henry on Micah 7:2-7

The Sins of the People. ( b. c. 700.) 1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape-gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the first-ripe fruit. 2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his… Read the whole commentary →

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