John Gill Commentary Micah 5:15

"And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations which hearkened not." — Micah 5:15 (ASV)

And I will execute vengeance in anger, and fury upon the
Heathen
Or "nations" ^F15 ; not the Pagan nations only, but the Papal and Mahometan ones, even all that are enemies to Christ, and his church and people:

such as they have not heard ; such terrible judgments, and dreadful expressions of divine wrath and fury, by earthquakes, hailstones as were never known or heard of in the world before; see (Revelation 16:18–21) ;

or, "which have not heard" ^F16 ; the people that have not heard and hearkened to the word of God, to the voice of Christ in the Gospel, but have turned a deaf ear to it, and despised it. So the Targum, 'who have not received the doctrine of the law;' but it is much more agreeable to understand it of the doctrine of the Gospel disobeyed by men, and therefore justly punished; see (2 Thessalonians 1:8 2 Thessalonians 1:9) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F15: "gentes", Junius & Tremellius.
• F16: "quae non audierunt", Pagninus, Montanus; "quae non auscultaverint", Junius & Tremellius; "quae non obediverunt", Burkius.