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The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is [worse] than a thorn hedge: the day of your watchmen, even your visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.
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Worse Than a Thorn Hedge
Commentators explain that the imagery of a brier and thorn hedge illustrates a society in complete moral collapse. Micah isn't just condemning the obviously wicked; he says even the 'best' and 'most upright' people are harmful, sharp, and entangling. When even the most respected individuals cause pain and injury, it signals that the nation's sin is at its peak and ripe for judgment.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The best of them is as a brier - The gentlest of them is a thorn, strong, hard, piercing, which lets nothing unresisting pass by wi…
19th Century
Anglican
The day of your watchmen — i.e., the time which your prophets have foreseen, about which they have continually warned you…
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet confirms what he had previously said—that the land was so full of every kind of wickedness, that those who were deemed the best were ye…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The best of them [is] as a brier Good for nothing but for burning, very hurtful and mischievous, pricking and scratching …
The prophet laments that he lived among a people swiftly ripening for ruin, a situation in which many good people would suffer. People found no com…
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