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Selected Verse: Micah 4:12 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| Mic 4:12 |
Strong Concordance |
But they know [03045] not the thoughts [04284] of the LORD [03068], neither understand [0995] they his counsel [06098]: for he shall gather [06908] them as the sheaves [05995] into the floor [01637]. |
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King James |
But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
thoughts of the Lord--Their unsearchable wisdom, overruling seeming disaster to the final good of His people, is the very ground on which the restoration of Israel hereafter (of which the restoration from Babylon is a type) is based in Isa 55:8; compare with Mic 4:3, Mic 4:12-13, which prove that Israel, not merely the Christian Church, is the ultimate subject of the prophecy; also in Rom 11:13. God's counsel is to discipline His people for a time with the foe as a scourge; and then to destroy the foe by the hands of His people.
gather them as . . . sheaves--them who "gathered" themselves for Zion's destruction (Mic 4:11) the Lord "shall gather" for destruction by Zion (Mic 4:13), like sheaves gathered to be threshed (compare Isa 21:10; Jer 51:33). The Hebrew is singular, "sheaf." However great the numbers of the foe, they are all but as one sheaf ready to be threshed [CALVIN]. Threshing was done by treading with the feet: hence the propriety of the image for treading under foot and breaking asunder the foe. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they His counsel - The pagan did, for their own ends, what God willed for His. The first step was the same; God willed that His people should be punished; they willed to punish them. But all which lay beyond, they saw not; that God willed (on their repentance) to pardon His own people, but to punish themselves for their pride Isa 10:7, Isa 10:12 and cruelty Zac 1:15, Zac 1:19. : "Almighty God corrects the elect through the reprobate, as with a rod; after which He condemns the reprobate eternally, as when the son has been disciplined, the rod is cast into the fire."
For He shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor - The multitude of the sheaves hinders not the threshing; the multitude of God's enemies hinders not their destruction. They think that they strengthen themselves, as they gather together; God sees them but as ripened and fitted for destruction, gathered into one bundle together, to perish together. God gathers them, not by constraint or force, but by giving free scope to their own wayward wills, and overruling these to His ends. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The thoughts - The design of the holy, just and faithful God. As the sheaves - The husbandman gathers the sheaves into the floor to thresh them; so God in due time will bring his enemies together, that they may be bruised, broken and destroyed. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| But they know not the thoughts of the Lord - These think that God has utterly rejected his people, and they shall have a troublesome neighbor 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. |
33 For thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], the God [0430] of Israel [03478]; The daughter [01323] of Babylon [0894] is like a threshingfloor [01637], it is time [06256] to thresh [01869] her: yet a little while [04592], and the time [06256] of her harvest [07105] shall come [0935].
10 O my threshing [04098], and the corn [01121] of my floor [01637]: that which I have heard [08085] of the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], the God [0430] of Israel [03478], have I declared [05046] unto you.
13 Arise [06965] and thresh [01758], O daughter [01323] of Zion [06726]: for I will make [07760] thine horn [07161] iron [01270], and I will make [07760] thy hoofs [06541] brass [05154]: and thou shalt beat in pieces [01854] many [07227] people [05971]: and I will consecrate [02763] their gain [01215] unto the LORD [03068], and their substance [02428] unto the Lord [0113] of the whole earth [0776].
11 Now also many [07227] nations [01471] are gathered [0622] against thee, that say [0559], Let her be defiled [02610], and let our eye [05869] look [02372] upon Zion [06726].
13 For [1063] I speak [3004] to you [5213] Gentiles [1484], inasmuch as [1909] [3745] [3303] I [1473] am [1510] the apostle [652] of the Gentiles [1484], I magnify [1392] mine [3450] office [1248]:
12 But they know [03045] not the thoughts [04284] of the LORD [03068], neither understand [0995] they his counsel [06098]: for he shall gather [06908] them as the sheaves [05995] into the floor [01637].
13 Arise [06965] and thresh [01758], O daughter [01323] of Zion [06726]: for I will make [07760] thine horn [07161] iron [01270], and I will make [07760] thy hoofs [06541] brass [05154]: and thou shalt beat in pieces [01854] many [07227] people [05971]: and I will consecrate [02763] their gain [01215] unto the LORD [03068], and their substance [02428] unto the Lord [0113] of the whole earth [0776].
3 And he shall judge [08199] among many [07227] people [05971], and rebuke [03198] strong [06099] nations [01471] afar off [07350]; and they shall beat [03807] their swords [02719] into plowshares [0855], and their spears [02595] into pruninghooks [04211]: nation [01471] shall not lift up [05375] a sword [02719] against nation [01471], neither shall they learn [03925] war [04421] any more.
8 For my thoughts [04284] are not your thoughts [04284], neither are your ways [01870] my ways [01870], saith [05002] the LORD [03068].
19 And I said [0559] unto the angel [04397] that talked [01696] with me, What be these? And he answered [0559] me, These are the horns [07161] which have scattered [02219] Judah [03063], Israel [03478], and Jerusalem [03389].
15 And I am very [01419] sore [07110] displeased [07107] with the heathen [01471] that are at ease [07600]: for I was but a little [04592] displeased [07107], and they helped [05826] forward the affliction [07451].
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord [0136] hath performed [01214] his whole work [04639] upon mount [02022] Zion [06726] and on Jerusalem [03389], I will punish [06485] the fruit [06529] of the stout [01433] heart [03824] of the king [04428] of Assyria [0804], and the glory [08597] of his high [07312] looks [05869].
7 Howbeit he meaneth [01819] not so, neither doth his heart [03824] think [02803] so; but it is in his heart [03824] to destroy [08045] and cut off [03772] nations [01471] not a few [04592].