Micah 7:8

Micah 7:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
• New International Version (NIV)Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; When I fall, I will arise; When I sit in darkness, The Lord will be a light to me.

Context of Micah 7:8

6For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household. 7But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. 9Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness. 10Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

Micah 7:8 word by word

אַֽל־תִּשְׂמְחִ֤י אֹיַ֙בְתִּי֙ לִ֔י כִּ֥י נָפַ֖לְתִּי קָ֑מְתִּי כִּֽי־אֵשֵׁ֣ב בַּחֹ֔שֶׁךְ יְהוָ֖ה א֥וֹר לִֽי׃ סRead the interlinear

• Do notאַל'al · notH408
• gloatשָׂמַחώâmach · to rejoiceH8055
• my enemyאֹיֵב'ôyêb 'ôyêb · enemyH341
• Thoughכִּיkîy · forH3588
• I have fallenנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307
• I will ariseקוּםqûm · to arise: riseH6965
• I sitיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• in darknessחֹ֫שֶׁךְchôshek · darknessH2822
• the LORDיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• will be my lightאוֹר'ôr · lightH216

Cross-references for Micah 7:8

• Job 31:29If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
• Psalms 13:4lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.
• Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
• Psalms 38:16For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
• Proverbs 24:17Do not gloat when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,
• Jeremiah 50:11“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,
• Lamentations 4:21So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.
• Ezekiel 25:6For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,
• Ezekiel 35:15As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
• Obadiah 1:12But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
• John 16:20Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
• Revelation 11:10And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.
• Psalms 37:21The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous are gracious and giving.
• Psalms 41:10But You, O LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up, that I may repay them.
• Proverbs 24:16For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.
• Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

Commentaries on Micah 7:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy - The captive Israelites are introduced as speaking here and in the preceding verse. The enemy are the Assyrians and Chaldeans; the fall is their idolatry and consequent captivity; the darkness, the calamities they suffered in that captivity; their rise and light, their restoration and consequent blessedness. To rejoice over the fall or miseries of any man, betrays a malignant spirit. I have known several instances…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy - The prophet still more makes himself one with the people, not only as looking for God, but in penitence, as Daniel bewails “his own sins and the sins of his people” Daniel 9:10. The “enemy” is Babylon and “Edom” Obadiah 1:10, Obadiah 1:12; Psalm 137:7; and then, in all times, (since this was written for all times, and the relations of the people of God and of its enemies are the same,) whosoever, whether devils or…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 Those truly penitent for sin, will see great reason to be patient under affliction. When we complain to the Lord of the badness of the times, we ought to complain against ourselves for the badness of our hearts. We must depend upon God to work deliverance for us in due time. We must not only look to him, but look for him. In our greatest distresses, we shall see no reason to despair of salvation, if by faith we look to the Lord as the God of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8though I sit in darkness: The prophet trusts God to be his light (see Psalm 27:1). He knows his enemies will not defeat him (compare Psalm 23:4–5). God's spirit gives him the strength and confidence to carry out his prophetic duties (Micah 3:8).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Rejoice not--at my fall. when I fall, I shall arise--(Psa 37:24; Pr 24:16). when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light--Israel reasons as her divine representative, Messiah, reasoned by faith in His hour of darkness and desertion (Is 50:7, 8, 10). Israel addresses Babylon, her triumphant foe (or Edom), as a female; the type of her last and worst foes (Psa 137:7, 8). "Mine enemy," in Hebrew, is feminine.Read the comment

Topics related to Micah 7:8

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Darkness
• Faith
• War

In the dictionaries

• Light
• Mouth
• Net
• Micah (2)
• Sitting

Commentaries on Micah 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings