SEV Biblia, Chapter 7:8
Tú, enemiga mía, no te alegres de mí, porque si caí, he de levantarme; si morare en tinieblas, el SEÑOR es mi luz.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Micah 7:8
Verse 8. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy] The captive Israelites are introduced as speaking here and in the preceding verse. The enemy are the Assyrians and Chaldeans; the fall is their idolatry and consequent captivity; the darkness, the calamities they suffered in that captivity; their rise and light, their restoration and consequent blessedness. To rejoice over the fall or miseries of any man, betrays a malignant spirit. I have known several instances where people professing to hold a very pure and Christian creed, having become unfaithful and fallen into sin, their opponents, who held a very impure and unchristian creed, have exulted with "Ha, ha! so would we have it!" and have shown their malignity more fully, by giving all possible publicity and circulation to such accounts.
Perhaps in the sight of God this was worse than the poor wretch's fall, in which they exulted as having taken place in one who held a creed different from their own. But these arose again from their fall, while those jesters at holiness continued in the gall of bitterness and bonds of inward corruption.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy , etc.] These are the words of the prophet in the name of the church, continued in an apostrophe or address to his and their enemy; by whom may be meant, literally, the Chaldeans or Edomites, or both, who rejoiced at the destruction of Jerusalem, and the calamities the people of the Jews were brought into at it; (see <19D707> Psalm 137:7,8 Obadiah 1:12); spiritually, Satan the great enemy of mankind, and especially of the church and people of God, to whom it is a pleasure to draw them into any sin or snare, and to do them any hurt and mischief; and also the Inert of the world, who hate and persecute the saints; and watch for their haltings, and rejoice at their falls into sin, and at any calamity and affliction that may attend them, though there is no just reason for it; since this will not always be the case of the saints, they will be in a better situation, and in more comfortable circumstances; and it will be the turn of their enemies to be afflicted, punished, and tormented: when I fall, I shall arise ; or, “though I fall” f217 , or “have fallen”; into outward afflictions and distresses, which come not by chance, but by divine appointment; or into the temptations of Satan, and by them, which sometimes is suffered for wise and purposes; or into sin, which even a good man, a truly righteous man, is frequently left unto; but then he does not fall from real goodness, from true grace, nor from his justifying righteousness, which is everlasting, and connected with eternal life: he may fall from a lively exercise of grace, from steadfastness in the faith, and a profession of it; but not from the principle of grace, nor a state of grace; or from the love and favour of God: he may fall, but not totally or finally, or so as to perish everlastingly; nor is he utterly cast down, the Lord upholds him, and raises him up again; he rises, as the church here believes she should, out of his present state and condition, into a more comfortable one; not in his own strength, but in the strength of the Lord, under a sense of sin, by the exercise of true repentance for it, and by faith in Christ, and in a view of pardoning grace and mercy; (see Psalm 37:24) ( Proverbs 24:16); when I sit in darkness ; or “though” f218 . The Targum is, “as it were in darkness;” not in a state of unregeneracy, which is a state of total darkness, but in affliction and distress; for, as light often signifies prosperity, so darkness adversity, any afflictive dispensation of Providence; and especially when this attended with desertion, or the hidings of God’s face; it is to be, not without any light of grace in the heart, or without the light of the word, or means of grace; but to be without the light of God’s countenance; which is very uncomfortable, and makes dark providences darker still; (see Isaiah 50:10); yet, notwithstanding all this, the Lord [shall be] a light unto me ; by delivering out of affliction; by lifting up the light of his countenance; by causing Christ the sun of righteousness to arise; by sending his Spirit to illuminate, refresh, and comfort; by his word, which is a lamp to the feet, a light to the path, a light shining in a dark place; (see Psalm 27:1 <19B204> 112:4). This passage is applied by the Jews to the days of the Messiah.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-13 - Those truly penitent for sin, will see great reason to be patient unde affliction. When we complain to the Lord of the badness of the times we ought to complain against ourselves for the badness of our hearts We must depend upon God to work deliverance for us in due time. We mus not only look to him, but look for him. In our greatest distresses, we shall see no reason to despair of salvation, if by faith we look to the Lord as the God of our salvation. Though enemies triumph and insult they shall be silenced and put to shame. Though Zion's walls may lon be in ruins, there will come a day when they shall be repaired. Israe shall come from all the remote parts, not turning back for discouragements. Though our enemies may seem to prevail against us, an to rejoice over us, we should not despond. Though cast down, we are no destroyed; we may join hope in God's mercy, with submission to his correction. No hinderances can prevent the favours the Lord intends for his church.
Original Hebrew
אל 408 תשׂמחי 8056 איבתי 341 לי כי 3588 נפלתי 5307 קמתי 6965 כי 3588 אשׁב 3427 בחשׁך 2822 יהוה 3068 אור׃ 216
