9The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-16)God, having shown them how necessary it was that they should do justly, here shows them how plain it was that they had done unjustly; and since they submitted not to his controversy, nor went the right way to have it taken up, here he proceeds in it. Observe, I. How the action is entered against them, Mic. 6:9. God speaks to the city , to Jerusalem, to Samaria. His voice cries to it by his servant…
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