Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 7:10

10 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me , Where is the LORD thy God ? mine eyes shall behold her : now shall she be troden down as the mire of the streets .

In the time of this hoped deliverance, when God shall, as I expect he will, plead my cause.

What Nation or people soever, whether Assyria, Edom, or Babylon, or whoever.

As they did when Hezekiah was Miraculously saved, and Jerusalem with him, out of the hand of the Assyrian, and as in the return out of Babylon, when the Heathen said among themselves, God hath done great things for them, Psal. 126.3.

Reproach and confusion, self-condemning reflections.

Shall on all sides be cast upon her for her pride, cruelty and inhumanity against the Israel of God.

Which with insulting pride and Atheisme derided my Faith and my God.

So the heathen either denied the Omnipresence and Omnipotence of the true God, or preferr'd their Idols above him, and as if he had been a conquer'd and captiv'd God, as well as his people were a captive people. So Psal. 115.2. and Ioel 2.17.

The Church speaketh assured of the Truth of Gods avenging her upon her Enemies.

With delight or well-pleasedness the people of God shall see their Enemies laid as low for their cruelty against them as ever God suffer'd the Enemy to lay his people low for their sins against him, and his Mercies. So the like expression. Psal. 59.10. chap. 4.11. let. x.

Either shortly she shall, or else when that time of full deliverance is come, the Church shall in that day rejoice in her God and say Now.

Be accounted and used as most contemptible and useless, the conquering Enemy shall then tread the Babylonians in the Dirt, and use them despitefully, and without more regard than that we have for the dirt under our foot, and this was accomplish'd by the Medes and Persians in their Conquest of Babylon.

Marginal references: Or, and thou wilt see her, that is mine enemy, an[illegible: 1 letter] cover her with shame.; Psal. 42.3, 10. and 79.10.; Heb. she shall befor a tre[illegible: 1 letter]ding down.