Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 4:11

11 ¶ Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say , Let her be defiled , and let our eye look upon Zion .

i. e. Ere long, the time is near at hand.

Many for number and great for name, mighty in power, all that were at that time confederate with, or feudatary to Senacherib King of A[illegible: 1 letter]syria or else to the King of Babylon.

The present tense for the future, in the Prophetick stile, to express the certainty & the nearness of the judgment, they will all of them assemble and come up against Iudah and Ierusalem, as Sennacherib did when he besieged Ierusalem, or as Nebuchadnezzar did when he took it.

Propose it as their design, hope for it as their end, and boast of it as easie.

Let us use her contemptuously, tread her under foot as a common and polluted thing, let us destroy her with such spite and scorn as a defiled thing deserveth. So the phrase 2 Kin. 23.8. let her be polluted with blood, and without respect to her former holiness let us enter, sack and destroy her Temple and Palaces.

With delighting our selves in the ruine, let us feed our envious revengeful eye.

Upon Ierusalem the Royal Palace, and the sacred Temple buried in their own rubbish.