12For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-16)We have here a long train of mourners attending the funeral of a ruined kingdom. I. The prophet is himself chief mourner ( Mic. 1:8 , 9 ): I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked , as a man distracted with grief. The prophets usually expressed their own grief for the public grievances, partly to mollify the predictions of them, and to make it appear that is was not out of ill-will that…
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