Micah 7:17

"The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf."

Key Reflection

In Micah 7:17, these verses depict a profound moment of divine judgment where the nations will witness the consequences of their actions and experience a humiliating silence—laying their hand on their mouth in shame. Their ears will become deaf to any further justification or excuse for their wrongdoing, symbolizing a complete loss of argument and awareness of God's truth.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

They shall lick the dust like a (the) serpent -To lick the dust, by itself, pictures the extreme humility of persons who east themselves down to the very earth (as inPsalms 72:9;Isaiah 49:23). To lick it “like the serpent” seems rather to represent the condition of those who share the serpent’s doomGenesis 3:14;Isaiah 65:25, whose lot, viz. earth and things of earth, they had chosen (Rup.): “They shall move out of their holes”, or, better, shall tremble, (that is, “come tremblingly,”) out of their close places , whether these be strong places or prisons, as the word, varied in one vowel means.

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