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Micah 7:11
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A day will come for rebuilding your walls;on that day your boundary will be extended.
A day to build your walls -- In that day, he will extend your boundary.
In the day that thy walles are to be built, in that day shall the decree bee farre remoued.
In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
It will be a day for building your walls. On that day your boundary will be extended.
The time will come when your walls will be built again, when your country will grow.
This is ye day, that thy walles shalbe built: this day shall driue farre away the decree.
It will be a day for building your walls. On that day will your boundary be extended.
It will be a day for building your walls.On that day your boundary will be extended.
The day for rebuilding your walls will come-the day for extending your boundary.
Towns of Judah, the day is coming when your walls will be rebuilt, and your boundaries enlarged.
That will be the day for rebuilding your walls, a day for expanding your territory,
In the day when thy walls shall be built, on that day shall the established limit recede.
The time will come when your walls will be rebuilt. At that time the country will grow.
It is a day to build your walls; it is a day to be lifted up.
People of Jerusalem, the time to rebuild the city walls is coming. At that time your territory will be enlarged.
A day for building your walls; on that day he will extend your boundary.
A day of building your walls, that day the limit shall be far removed.
A day for building thy walls! in that day shall the decree be far removed.
A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.
'The day for building thy walls, even that day, shall be far removed.'
This is the day that thy walles shalbe buylt, this day shall dryue farre away the decree.
It is the day of making of brick; that day shall be thine utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish thine ordinances.
A day for building thy walls! in that day shall the decree be far removed.
A day to build your walls -- In that day, he will extend your boundary.
Dai schal come, that thi wallis be bildid; in that dai lawe schal be maad afer.
A day for building your walls! in that day the decree shall be far removed.
[In] the day that thy walls are to be built, [in] that day shall the decree be far removed.
It will be a day for rebuilding your walls; in that day your boundary will be extended.
In the day when your walls are to be built,In that day the decree shall go far and wide. [fn]
In that day, Israel, your cities will be rebuilt, and your borders will be extended.
It will be a day for building your walls. At that time your land will be made larger.
A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
On the day for building thy walls, - on that day, far away shall be thy boundary:
The day shall come, that thy walls may be built up: in that day shall the law be far removed.
A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
The day to build thy walls! That day -- removed is the limit.
The tyme wil come, that thy gappes shal be made vp, and the lawe shal go abrode:
Oh, that will be a day! A day for rebuilding your city, a day for stretching your arms, spreading your wings! All your dispersed and scattered people will come back, old friends and family from faraway places, From Assyria in the east to Egypt in the west, from across the seas and out of the mountains. But there'll be a reversal for everyone else—massive depopulation— because of the way they lived, the things they did.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the day: Nehemiah 2:17, Nehemiah 3:1-16, Nehemiah 4:3, Nehemiah 4:6, Daniel 9:25, Amos 9:11-15
shall: Ezra 4:12-24, Nehemiah 2:8
Reciprocal: Psalms 51:18 - build Isaiah 2:11 - in that day Jeremiah 46:27 - I will save Ezekiel 28:25 - When Ezekiel 37:21 - General Ezekiel 42:20 - it had Zechariah 2:4 - Jerusalem Zechariah 10:10 - out of the
Cross-References
And God made the expanse [of sky] and separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so [just as He commanded].
"For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all life under the heavens in which there is the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.
So Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood (deluge) of water came on the earth [covering all of the land].
Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and fowls and everything that crawls on the ground,
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
God destroyed (blotted out, wiped away) every living thing that was on the surface of the earth; man and animals and the crawling things and the birds of the heavens were destroyed from the land. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
The waters covered [all of] the earth for a hundred and fifty days (five months).
Then the royal officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God and said, "If the LORD should make windows in heaven [for the rain], could this thing take place?" Elisha said, "Behold, you will see it with your own eyes, but [because you doubt] you will not eat of it."
The royal officer had answered the man of God and said, "Now behold, [even] if the LORD should make windows in heaven, could such a thing happen?" And Elisha had answered, "You will see it with your own eyes, but [because of your doubt] you will not eat it."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[In] the day that thy walls are to be built,.... These words are not spoken to the enemy, as some think; either the Chaldeans, the walls of whose city, Babylon, being demolished by the Persians, it would be a long day or time before they were rebuilt and when their power of sending their decrees abroad among the nations would be far off: or to the enemy that should think to build up their walls with the spoils of Israel, in the time of Gog and Magog, and when their decree determined over the nations and Israel would also be far off; but they are the words of the prophet to the church and people of God, comforting them with observing, that there would be a day when the walls of Jerusalem, and the temple, which would lie in ruins during their captivity, would be rebuilt; and which was fulfilled in the times of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah; and so the Targum,
"that time the congregation of Israel shall be built;''
and which had a further accomplishment, in a spiritual sense, in the first times of the Gospel, when the church of Christ was built up, and established in the world and will still have a greater completion in the latter day, when the tabernacle of David, or church of Christ, shall be raised that is fallen, and its breaches closed, and ruins repaired, Amos 9:11;
[in] that day shall the decree be far removed; which, as it literally respects Jerusalem, and the rebuilding of that after seventy years captivity, may signify either the decree of God concerning that captivity, which would then cease, according to the time fixed by it; or the cruel laws and edicts of the Babylonians, which should no more bind and press the Jews, and be as a heavy yoke upon them; those statutes, which were not good, that were given them. So the Targum,
"at that time the decrees of the nations shall cease;''
or the decree of Artaxerxes, forbidding and hindering the rebuilding of the city: but if the phrase "far removed" signifies its being divulged and spread far abroad, as it is interpreted by some; then it may refer to the decree of Cyrus for rebuilding the city and temple; and which was revived and confirmed by Darius Hystaspis, and by Darius Longimanus, and which was published everywhere; and by means of which the Jews from all parts were encouraged to come up to their own land, and proselytes with them; and which sense suits well with what follows: and as this, in a spiritual sense, may have regard to the church of Christ in Gospel times, it may signify the removal of human laws, traditions, rites, and ceremonies, respecting religious things, among the Gentiles, and their giving way to those of God and Christ; or the promulgation of the Gospel in all parts, called a decree, Psalms 2:6; because a revelation of the decrees of God, respecting the salvation of men, and to which it owes its efficacy; by means of which many would be brought to the church, and the kingdom of Christ be enlarged, and spread everywhere, as follows:
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
On this confession of unworthiness and trust the message of joy bursts in, with the abruptness and conciseness of Hosea or Nahum:
A day to build thy fences; (that is, cometh;)
That day, far shall be the degree;
That day, and he shall come quite to thee;
And there follows, in a longer but still remarkably measured and interrupted cadence,
the statement of the length and breadth from which the people shall come to her;
Up to and from Assyria and the cities of strong-land (Egypt;)
Up to and from strong-land and even to river (the Euphrates;)
And sea from sea, and mountain to mountain.
It is not human might or strength which God promises to restore. He had before predicted, that the kingdom of the Messiah should stand, not through earthly strength Micah 5:9-13. He promises the restoration, not of city walls, but of the fence of the vineyard of God, which God foretold by Isaiah that He would “break down” Isaiah 5:5. It is a peaceful renewal of her estate under God’s protection, like that, with the promise whereof Amos closed his prophecy; “In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof” Amos 9:11. This decree, which he says shall be far away, might in itself be the decree either of God or of the enemy. The sense is the same, since the enemy was but the instrument of God. Yet it seems more in accordance with the language of the prophets, that it should be the decree of man. For the decree of God for the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of His people was accomplished, held its course, was fulfilled.
The destruction, captivity, restoration, were parts of one and the same decree of God, of which the restoration was the last accomplished in time. The restoration was not the removal, but the complete fulfillment, of the decree. He means then probably, that the decree of the enemy, whereby he held her captive, was to remove and be far off, not by any agency of her’s . The people were to stream to her of themselves. One by one, shall all thy banished, captive, scattered, children be brought quite home unto thee from all parts of the earth, whither they have been driven, “from Assyria, and from strong-land”. The name Matsor, which he gives to Egypt, modifying its ordinary dual name Mitsraim, is meant, at once to signify “Egypt” , and to mark the strength of the country; as, in fact, , “Egypt was on all sides by nature strongly guarded.”
A country, which was still strong relatively to Judah, would not, of itself, yield up its prey, but held it straitly; yet it should have to disgorge it. Isaiah and Hosea prophesied, in like way, the return of Israel and Judah from Assyria and from Egypt. “And from strong-land even to the river” Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 27:13; Hosea 11:11 (Euphrates); the ancient, widest, boundary of the promised land; “and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain” Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 1:7; Deuteronomy 11:24, Joshua 1:4; 1 Kings 4:21, 1 Kings 4:24. These last are too large to be the real boundaries of the land. If understood geographically, it would by narrowig those which had just been spoken of, from Egypt to the Euphratcs. Joel likens the destruction of the Northern army to the perishing of locusts in the two opposite seas, the Dead sea and the Mediterranean Joel 2:20; but the Dead sea was not the entire Eastern boundary of all Israel. Nor are there any mountains on the South, answering to Mount Libanus on the North. Not the mountains of Edom which lay to the South-East, but the desert Exodus 23:31; Numbers 34:3; Deuteronomy 11:24 was the Southern boundary of Judah. In the times too of their greatest prosperity, Edom, Moab, Ammon, Syria, had been subject to them.
The rule of the Messiah “from sea to sea” had already been predicted by Solomon , enlarging the boundaries of the promised land to the whole compass of the world, from the sea, their bound westward, to the further encircling sea beyond all habitable land, in which, in fact, our continents are large islands . To this, Micah adds a new description, “from mountain to mountain”, including, probably, all subdivisions in our habitable earth, as the words, “sea to sea”, had embraced it as a whole. For, physically and to sight, mountains are the great natural divisions of our earth. Rivers are but a means of transit. The Euphrates and the Nile were the centers of the kingdoms which lay upon them. Each range of mountains, as it rises on the horizon, seems to present an insuperable barrier. No barrier should avail to hinder the inflow to the Gospel. As Isaiah foretold that all obstacles should be removed, “every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low” Isaiah 40:4, so Micah prophesies, “from mountain to mountain they shall come”.
The words are addressed as a promise and consolation to the Jews, and so, doubtless, the restoration of the Jews to their own land after the captivity is foretold here, as Micah had already foretold it Micah 4:10. But is the whole limited to this? He says, with remarkable indefiniteness, there shall come . He does not say, who “shall come.” But he twice sets two opposite boundaries, from which men should come; and, since these boundaries, not being coincident, cannot be predicted of one and the same subject, there must be two distinct incomings. The Jews were to come from those two countries, whither its people were then to be carried captive or would flee. From the boundaries of the world, the world was to come.
Thus, Micah embraces in one the prophecies, which are distinct in Isaiah, that not only God’s former people should come from Egypt and A ssyria, but that Egypt and Assyria themselves should be counted as one with Israel Isaiah 19:23-25; and while, in the first place, the restoration of Israel itself is foretold, there follows that conversion of the world, which Micah had before promised Micah 4:1-3, and which was the object of the restoration of Israel. This was fulfilled to Jews and pagan together, when the dispersed of the Jews were gathered into one in Christ, the Son of David according to the flesh, and the Gospel, beginning at Jerusalem, was spread abroad among all nations. The promise is thrice repeated, It is the day, assuring the truth thereof, as it were, in the Name of the All-Holy Trinity.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Micah 7:11. In the day that thy walls are to be built — This refers to Jerusalem; the decree, to the purpose of God to deliver the people into captivity. "This shall be far removed." God having purposed their return, I cannot think, with some commentators, that this verse contains threatenings against Jerusalem, and not promises. See the first chapter of Haggai, Haggai 1:1, c. where the subject is similar and the restoration of Jerusalem is certainly what the prophet describes.
