Charles Ellicott Commentary Micah 7:14

"Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old." — Micah 7:14 (ASV)

Feed thy people with thy rod.—Or, with your shepherd’s crook.

The prophet lifts up his prayer for the people. He prays for them, whether they are dwelling “alone” among the idolaters of Babylon—among them, but not of them—or living as a nation, mysteriously apart from other nations, returned from Babylon and settled on the fruitful mountain range of Carmel, or in the rich pasture land on the east of Jordan.

The extraordinary fertility of this “Land of Promise” has been recently brought into prominence, and its future prosperity predicted in glowing colours by Mr. Oliphant, in The Land of Gilead.