Micah 3:4 (BSB)
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
From Micah 3. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Micah 3:4
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Micah 3:4: Micah now denounces judgment on the chief men, such as they deserved. He says, They shall cry then to Jehovah The adverb אז, az, is often put indefinitely in Hebrew, and has the force of a demonstrative, and may be taken as pointing out a thing, (δεικτικως — demonstratively,) then, or there, as though the Prophet pointed out by his finger things which could be...
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Micah 3:1-7: Princes and prophets, when they faithfully discharge the duty of their office, are to be highly honoured above other men; but when they betray their trust, and act contrary to it, they should hear of their faults as well as others, and shall be made to know that there is a God above them, to whom they are accountable; at his bar the prophet here, in his name, arraigns them.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Micah 3:4: Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them,.... When all the above evils threatened them in the preceding chapters shall come upon them; when the enemy shall invade their hind, besiege their cities, and take them, and they, their families and substance, just ready to fall into their hands, they shall cry unto the Lord; or pray unto him, as...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Micah 3:4: Then--at the time of judgment, which Micah takes for granted, so certain is it (compare Mic 2:3). they cry . . . but he will not hear--just as those oppressed by them had formerly cried, and they would not hear. Their prayer shall be rejected, because it is the mere cry of nature for deliverance from pain, not that of repentance for deliverance from sin.