Micah 2:7

But you people [MTY] of Israel should not [RHQ] talk like that! The Spirit of Yahweh will certainly not [RHQ] be patient with people who say such things! People who continually do things that are righteous will certainly [RHQ] like/appreciate what I say.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

In Context

6The people who heard me say that replied to me, “Do not prophesy such things! Do not say that Yahweh is going to humiliate us by causing us to experience disasters!”

8But Yahweh says, “ Recently my people have been acting toward me like an enemy. When soldiers return from fighting against their enemies, you rich people refuse to return the coats of those poor soldiers who have borrowed money from you and given you their coats to guarantee that they will pay back the money that they borrowed from you. It is as though you are waiting to forcefully take their coats off their backs!

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Cross References

Psalms 15:2Only those who always do what is right and do not sin may do that. They always say what is true

Psalms 19:7The instructions that Yahweh has given us are perfect; they ◄revive us/give us new strength►. We can be sure that the things that Yahweh has told us will never change, and by learning them people who have not been previously taught/instructed will become wise.

Psalms 119:65Yahweh, you have done good things for me, like you promised/said that you would do.

Psalms 119:92If I had not been delighted in obeying your laws, I would have died because of what I was suffering.

Proverbs 2:7He gives good advice to those who conduct their lives as they should. He protects [MET] those who do what is right.

Proverbs 10:29Yahweh protects [MET] those who live righteously, but he destroys those who do what is evil.

Matthew Henry on Micah 2:7-12

Expostulation with the House of Jacob; The Sin and Punishment of Oppression. ( b. c. 740.) 6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame. 7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? 8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. 9 The… Read the whole commentary →

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