SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:6
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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Micah 2:6
Verse 6. Prophesy ye not] Do not predict any more evils-we have as many as we can bear. We are utterly ruined-shame and confusion cover our faces. The original is singular, and expressive of sorrow and sobbing. Literally, "Do not cause it to rain; they will cause it to rain; they cannot make it rain sooner than this; confusion shall not depart from us." To rain, often means to preach, to prephesy; Ezekiel xx. 46, xxi. 2; Amos vii. 16; Deut. xxxii. 2; Job xxix. 22; Proverbs v. 3, &c.
The last line Bp. Newcome translates, "For he shall not remove from himself reproaches;" and paraphrases, "The true prophet will subject himself to public disgrace by exercising his office.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. Prophesy ye not, [say they to them that] prophesy , etc.] Or “drop not” f104 ; such terrible words, such menacing things; let them not flow from your lips with such profusion and abundance; cease from speaking in the name of the Lord, if we can hear nothing else but sharp reproofs, and severe judgments: or the first word respects the true prophets of the Lord, and forbids their prophesying; and, according to others, the next should be rendered, “let them prophesy”, or “drop” f105 ; that is, the false prophets, that prophesy smooth things; and so the sense is, let the one prophesy, but not the other: they shall not prophesy to them ; these are the words of the Lord, in answer to the other, that since they did not like his prophets, their should no more be sent to, them, nor should drop or distil the rain of doctrine upon them; but, as a judgment upon them, should be deprived of them: or, “they shall not prophesy according to these” f106 ; as the false prophets do, not such things as they; or the whole may be rendered thus, “prophesy not”, or, “if they prophesy, let them not prophesy as these” f107 ; such things as these; namely, [that] shame shall not overtake them ; that is, as the false prophets, who said that shame and confusion should not come upon the people of Israel, or the wrath denounced against them, but they should enjoy great peace and prosperity: but the first sense seems best, and the meaning of this clause to be, that the true prophets of the Lord should not prophesy any more to this people, since they did not choose they should: “that shame might not come upon them”; that the prophets might not be treated by them in a shameful and ignominious manner: or, as others, “shame shall not depart from them” f108 ; though they think to escape it by forbidding the prophets prophesying terrible things to come, yet confusion will be their portion at last.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-11 - Since they say, "Prophesy not," God will take them at their word, an their sin shall be their punishment. Let the physician no longer atten the patient that will not be healed. Those are enemies, not only to God, but to their country, who silence good ministers, and stop the means of grace. What bonds will hold those who have no reverence for God's word? Sinners cannot expect to rest in a land they have polluted You shall not only be obliged to depart out of this land, but it shal destroy you. Apply this to our state in this present world. There is corruption in the world through lust, and we should keep at a distanc from it. It is not our rest: it was designed for our passage, but no for our portion; our inn, but not our home; here we have no continuin city; let us therefore arise and depart, let us seek a continuing cit above. Since they will be deceived, let them be deceived. Teachers wh recommend self-indulgence by their doctrine and example, best suit suc sinners.
Original Hebrew
אל 408 תטפו 5197 יטיפון 5197 לא 3808 יטפו 5197 לאלה 428 לא 3808 יסג 5253 כלמות׃ 3639
