SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:3
Por tanto, así dijo el SEÑOR: He aquí, yo pienso sobre esta familia un mal, del cual no sacaréis vuestros cuellos, ni andaréis erguidos; porque el tiempo será malo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Micah 2:3
Verse 3. Against this family (the Israelites) do I devise an evil] You have devised the evil of plundering the upright; I will devise the evil to you of punishment for your conduct; you shall have your necks brought under the yoke of servitude. Tiglath-pileser ruined this kingdom, and transported the people to Assyria, under the reign of Hezekiah, king of Judah; and Micah lived to see this catastrophe. See on ver. 9.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. Therefore thus saith the Lord, behold, against this family do I devise an evil , etc.] Because of those evils of covetousness, oppression, and injustice, secretly devised, and deliberately committed, the Lord, who neither slumbers nor sleeps, declares, and would have it observed, that he had devised an evil of punishment against the whole nation of Israel, the ten tribes particularly, among whom these sins greatly prevailed; even an invasion of their land by the Assyrians, and the carrying of them captive from it into foreign parts: from which ye shall not remove your necks ; that is, they should not be able to deliver themselves from it; they would not be able to stop the enemy in his progress, having entered their land; nor oblige him to break up the siege of their city, before which he would sit, and there continue till he had taken it; and being carried captive by him, they would never be able to free themselves from the yoke of bondage put upon them, and under which they remain unto this day. The allusion is to beasts slipping their necks out of the collar or yoke put upon them: these sons of Belial had broke off the yoke of God’s commandments, and now he will, put another yoke upon them, they shall never be able to cast off until the time of the restitution of all things, when all Israel shall be saved: neither shall ye go haughtily ; as they now did, in an erect posture, with necks stretched out, and heads lifted up high, and looking upon others with scorn and contempt; but hereafter it should be otherwise, their heads would hang down, their countenances be dejected, and their backs bowed with the burdens upon them: for this time [is] evil ; very calamitous, afflictive, and distressing; and so not a time for pride and haughtiness, but for dejection and humiliation; (see Ephesians 5:16).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - Woe to the people that devise evil during the night, and rise early to carry it into execution! It is bad to do mischief on a sudden thought much worse to do it with design and forethought. It is of great momen to improve and employ hours of retirement and solitude in a prope manner. If covetousness reigns in the heart, compassion is banished and when the heart is thus engaged, violence and fraud commonly occup the hands. The most haughty and secure in prosperity, are commonly mos ready to despair in adversity. Woe to those from whom God turns away Those are the sorest calamities which cut us off from the congregatio of the Lord, or cut us short in the enjoyment of its privileges.
Original Hebrew
לכן 3651 כה 3541 אמר 559 יהוה 3068 הנני 2005 חשׁב 2803 על 5921 המשׁפחה 4940 הזאת 2063 רעה 7451 אשׁר 834 לא 3808 תמישׁו 4185 משׁם 8033 צוארתיכם 6677 ולא 3808 תלכו 1980 רומה 7317 כי 3588 עת 6256 רעה 7451 היא׃ 1931
