Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Micah 2:8
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. Browse this work.
Read Micah 2. Compare commentaries on this chapter.
Source and publication rights
Public domain. Public Domain. Source edition.
Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.
Micah2:8
8. Your ways are not such that I can deal with you as I would with the upright.
Even of late--literally, "yesterday," "long ago." So "of old." Hebrew, "yesterday" (Is 30:33); "heretofore," Hebrew, "since yesterday" (Jos 3:4).
my people is risen up as an enemy--that is, has rebelled against My precepts; also has become an enemy to the unoffending passers-by.
robe with the garment--Not content with the outer "garment," ye greedily rob passers-by of the ornamental "robe" fitting the body closely and flowing down to the feet [Ludovicus De Dieu] (Mt 5:40).
as men averse from war--in antithesis to (My people) "as an enemy." Israel treats the innocent passers-by, though "averse from war," as an enemy" would treat captives in his power, stripping them of their habiliments as lawful spoils. Grotius translates, "as men returning from war," that is, as captives over whom the right of war gives the victors an absolute power. English Version is supported by the antithesis.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Micah 2:8. Public domain.
Permanent link. Source edition.