Micah 4:8

Micah 4:8

Zion’s Future Triumph

6 “In that day,” says the Lord,
^a“I will assemble the lame,
^bI will gather the outcast
And those whom I have afflicted;

7 I will make the lame ^aa remnant,
And the outcast a strong nation;
So the Lord ^bwill reign over them in Mount Zion
From now on, even forever.

8 And you, O tower of the flock,
The stronghold of the daughter of Zion,
To you shall it come,
Even the former dominion shall come,
The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.”

9 Now why do you cry aloud?
^aIs there no king in your midst?
Has your counselor perished?
For ^bpangs have seized you like a woman in¹ labor.

10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
O daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in birth pangs.
For now you shall go forth from the city,
You shall dwell in the field,
And to ^aBabylon you shall go.
There you shall be delivered;
There the ^bLord will ^credeem you
From the hand of your enemies.

11 ^aNow also many nations have gathered against you,
Who say, “Let her be defiled,
And let our eye ^blook upon Zion.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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tower of the flock—following up the metaphor of sheep (see on Micah 4:6). Jerusalem is called the "tower," from which the King and Shepherd observes and guards His flock: both the spiritual Jerusalem, the Church now whose tower-like elevation is that of doctrine and practice (Song of Solomon 4:4, "Thy neck is like the tower of David"), and the literal hereafter (Jeremiah 3:17). In large pastures it was usual to erect a high wooden tower, so as to oversee the flock. JEROME takes the Hebrew for "flock," Eder or Edar, as a proper name, namely, a village near Beth-lehem, for which it is put, Beth-lehem being taken to represent the royal stock of David (Micah 5:2; compare Genesis 35:21). But the explanatory words, "the stronghold of the daughter of Zion," confirm English Version.

stronghold—Hebrew, "Ophel"; an impregnable height on Mount Zion (II Chronicles 27:3; II Chronicles 33:14; Nehemiah 3:26-27).

unto thee shall . . . come . . . the first dominion—namely, the dominion formerly exercised by thee shall come back to thee.

kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem—rather, "the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem shall come (again)"; such as it was under David, before its being weakened by the secession of the ten tribes.

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