Christian Standard Bible
Micah 7:11
11A day will come for rebuilding your walls; on that day your boundary will be extended.
Micah 7:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
- New International Version (NIV)The day for building your walls will come, the day for extending your boundaries.
- English Standard Version (ESV)A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
- New King James Version (NKJV)In the day when your walls are to be built, In that day the decree shall go far and wide.
Context of Micah 7:11
9Because I have sinned against him, I must endure the Lord’s fury until he champions my cause and establishes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see his salvation. 10Then my enemy will see, and she will be covered with shame, the one who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look at her in triumph; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets. A day will come for rebuilding your walls; on that day your boundary will be extended. 12On that day people will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates River and from sea to sea and mountain to mountain. 13Then the earth will become a wasteland because of its inhabitants and as a result of their actions.
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י֖וֹם לִבְנ֣וֹת גְּדֵרָ֑יִךְ י֥וֹם הַה֖וּא יִרְחַק־חֹֽק׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Micah 7:11
- Nehemiah 2:17So I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned. Come, let’s rebuild Jerusalem’s wall, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”
- Nehemiah 3:1The high priest Eliashib and his fellow priests began rebuilding the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated it.
- Nehemiah 4:3Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “Indeed, even if a fox climbed up what they are building, he would break down their stone wall!”
- Daniel 9:25Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an Anointed One, the ruler, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat, but in difficult times.
- Amos 9:11In that day I will restore the fallen shelter of David: I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
- Ezra 4:12Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came from you have returned to us at Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and evil city, finishing its walls, and repairing its foundations.
- Nehemiah 2:8And let me have a letter written to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to rebuild the gates of the temple’s fortress, the city wall, and the home where I will live.” The king granted my requests, for the gracious hand of my God was on me.
Commentaries on Micah 7:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11In 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 Haggai 1:1-15; (note), where the subject is similar; and the restoration of Jerusalem is certainly what the prophet describes.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11On 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…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. 11-12That day includes: 538 BC, when Israel began to return from exile in Babylon (see Ezra 1–2); and the final restoration of God's people (see Amos 9:11–15). As the nations come to a renewed Israel, God will fulfill his purposes through Abraham (see Genesis 12:3).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. thy walls ... be built--under Cyrus, after the seventy years' captivity; and again, hereafter, when the Jews shall be restored (Am 9:11; Zec 12:6). shall the decree be far removed--namely, thy tyrannical decree or rule of Babylon shall be put away from thee, "the statutes that were not good" (Eze 20:25) [Calvin]. Psa 102:13-16; Is 9:4. The Hebrew is against Maurer's translation, "the boundary of the city shall be far extended," so as to contain the…Read the comment
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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
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