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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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Albert Barnes
On Micah 7:4
18th Century
Theologian
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…
Charles Ellicott
On Micah 7:4
19th Century
Bishop
The day of your watchmen — i.e., the time which your prophets have foreseen, about which they have continually warned you…
Charles Spurgeon
On Micah 7:4
19th Century
Preacher
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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John Calvin
On Micah 7:4
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Micah 7:4
17th Century
Pastor
The best of them [is] as a brier Good for nothing but for burning, very hurtful and mischievous, pricking and scratching …
Matthew Henry
On Micah 7:1–7
17th Century
Minister
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…