Charles Spurgeon Commentary Micah 7:4

"The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity." — Micah 7:4 (ASV)

Sin brings sorrow in its wake; and as nations will have no future as nations, God deals with national sin here on earth and visits it with national punishments.

Now that sin had become so rampant in Israel, it would be the time of their perplexity. And when sins, like chickens, come home to roost, then will be the time of the sinner's perplexity.

He lets his sins fly abroad and thinks that, like the wandering birds of the air, they will soon be gone, and he will never see them again. But they will all come home to him, and he will be made bitterly to rue the day in which he thought that he could profit by transgressing the righteous law of the Lord.