Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 7:8

8 ¶ Rejoice not against me , O mine enemy : when I fall , I shall arise ; when I sit in darkness the LORD shall be a light unto me.

Let it be no pleasure or matter of glorying to thee, that the day of Calamity hath overtaken me.

Israel of God, the remnant, the faithful, which are the Church of God.

O Assyria[illegible: 1 letter], Edom, or Babylon.

Into a low condition, into deepest distresses.

I shall not alwayes lie in them, God will raise me out of them.

The Prophet intends the good, the few righteous ones among those degenerate multitudes.

When Affliction, War, Famine, and Captivity as a dismal cloud shall cover us, and benight the daughter of light, when fallen as low as a captive,

shall support, comfort and deliver me, his presence and favour shall, as the Sun rising, dispel the darkness of the night. This is spoken more especially concerning Iudah.

The Prophet in this verse personates the Church and brings her in bespeaking the Enemy in this manner.

Marginal references: Lam. 4.21.