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Micah 7:2

The Pulpit Commentary on Micah 7:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

This verse explains the preceding comparison; the grape and the early fig represent the righteous man. The good man; LXX; εὐσεβής, the godly, pious man. The Hebrew word (khasidh) implies one who exercises love to others, who is merciful, loving, and righteous.

Is perished out of the earth; has disappeared from the world (comp. , ; and especially ). They all lie in wait for blood. They all practise violence and rapine, and meditate how they may pursue their evil designs, even to the shedding of blood.

LXX; πάντες εἰς αἶματα δικάζονται, which narrows the charge to one special kind of iniquity, vie. committing judicial murders. They hunt every man his brother with a net. They ought to love their brethren, their fellow countrymen, partakers of the same hope and privileges (Le 19:18).

Instead of this, they pursue them as the fowler traps birds, or the hunter beasts. The word rendered "net" (cherem) is in most versions translated "destruction." Thus, Septuagint, ἐκθλίβουσιν ἐκθλιβῇ: Vulgate, ad mortem venatur; so the Syriac and Chaldee.

In the present connection it is best taken as "net" ().

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