SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:12
Mas ellos no conocieron los pensamientos del SEÑOR, ni entendieron su consejo; por lo cual los juntó como gavillas en la era.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Micah 4:12
Verse 12. But they know not the thoughts of the Lord] These think that God has utterly rejected his people, and they shall have a troublesome neighbour no more: but this is not his design; he will afflict them for a time; but these, the enemies of his people, he will gather as sheaves into the threshing-floor, there to be trodden, and the wheel to go over them. This is the counsel, the purpose of God, which these do not understand. The persons here referred to are not only the Chaldeans which were threshed by the Persians and Medes; but the Idumeans, Ammonites, Moabites, and Philistines, which the Jews afterwards subdued.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel , etc.] Which are very different from theirs: the thoughts and designs of the enemies of Zion, in the times of the Maccabees, were, to destroy utterly the people of God, and root them out of the earth, and abolish their religion and worship; but the intentions of God were to defeat them, and bring them to ruin: the views of the kings of the earth, being stirred up by unclean spirits to the battle of Almighty God, will be to extirpate the interest and kingdom of Christ; but the end of the Lord, in suffering them to be gathered together, will be utterly and totally to destroy them; and the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand, and the thoughts of his heart, to all generations. Men know their own designs, but they do not know the designs of the Lord; they intend the ruin of others, but God intends to bring about theirs; and his intentions are never frustrated, but theirs are; for he shall gather them as sheaves into the floor ; as, when the harvest is ripe, it is cut down, and bound up in sheaves, and brought home, and these are laid in order upon the floor to be threshed; so, when the nations of the earth are fully ripe for ruin, God will put, or order to be put; in the sickle, and cut them down, and bind them in bundles, and lay them on his threshingfloor of wrath and vengeance, and utterly destroy them contrary to their views and expectations.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-13 - Many nations would assemble against Zion to rejoice in her calamities They would not understand that the Lord had collected them as sheave are gathered to be threshed; and that Zion would be strengthened to beat them to pieces. Nothing has yet taken place in the history of the Jewish church agreeing with this prediction. When God has conquerin work for his people to do, he will furnish them with strength an ability for it. Believers should cry aloud under distresses, with the prayer of faith, not with despondency __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
והמה 1992 לא 3808 ידעו 3045 מחשׁבות 4284 יהוה 3068 ולא 3808 הבינו 995 עצתו 6098 כי 3588 קבצם 6908 כעמיר 5995 גרנה׃ 1637
