Micah 7:7
in Micah 7But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
KJV
Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
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This verse in Micah 7
Commentary
10 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Therefore - (And,) when all these things come to pass and all human help fails, “I”, for my part, “will look unto”, (literally, “on”) “the Lord” God, the Unchangeable. The prophet sets himself, I, with emphasis, against the multitude of the ungodly.
This site's exposition
But as for me, I will look to the LORD
The prophet turns: "But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation". The trust denied to friend and companion in verse 5 is placed in God. The three verbs move from present resolve to settled expectation.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 5-7) Your day of reckoning has come, your visitation is here. Now there will be destruction: do not trust your friend, and do not rely on your leader. Guard the doors of your mouth against the one who lies in your bosom; for a son insults his father, and a daughter rises up against her mother; a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and enemies are those of a man's own household. But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for God, my savior; my God will hear me.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Therefore - Since all sorts of men are so perfidious. Look - As one set in a watch-tower looks round about, and diligently observes all that stirs, so will the prophet; so did they who in Israel and Judah feared the Lord.
God is angry with us, and justly, because we have sinned against him. " Note, It is our sin against God that provokes his indignation against us; and we must see it, and own it, whenever we are under divine rebukes, that we may justify God, and may study to answer his end in afflicting us, by repenting of sin and breaking off from it.
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Therefore I will look unto the Lord,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
OBSERVE that the Prophet has no sort of doubt. He insinuates no "if or "an" or "but" or "perhaps," but he says it straight out as a fact of which he is infallibly convinced—"My God will hear me." What a blessed thing it is that the child of God knows and feels that this is true! Wherever he may fail, he will succeed at the Throne! If all other friendly ears are closed, his Friend of friends will hear him. Lose your confidence in the power of prayer and I know not what remains for you.
3 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Therefore I will look unto the Lord--as if no one else were before mine eyes. We must not only "look unto the Lord," but also "wait for Him." Having no hope from man (Mic 7:5, 6), Micah speaks in the name of Israel, who herein, taught by chastisement (Mic 7:4) to feel her sin (Mic 7:9), casts herself on the Lord as her only hope," in patient waiting (La 3:26).
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes
OBSERVE that the Prophet has no sort of doubt. He insinuates no "if or "an" or "but" or "perhaps," but he says it straight out as a fact of which he is infallibly convinced—"My God will hear me." What a blessed thing it is that the child of God knows and feels that this is true! Wherever he may fail, he will succeed at the Throne! If all other friendly ears are closed, his Friend of friends will hear him. Lose your confidence in the power of prayer and I know not what remains for you. If you are obliged to say, "My God will not hear me"—if that is the language of your unbelieving spirit—your Achilles tendon is cut and you cannot stand with confidence, much less run with delight. With faith in prayer you have Heaven's infinite treasures at your disposal. But if you ask waveringly, you find that warning true, "He that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. Let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord." You must know with absolute certainty that God is and that He is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, or you will not be among those whom the Father seeks to worship Him. To be "strong in the Lord and in the power of His might" you must be strong upon your knees. "My God will hear me" is a sentence which you must know by heart. It is a very wide question, that of God's hearing the prayers of men, and I should need a considerable time to describe particularly whose prayers the Lord will hear and what prayers He will hear and how it is true that He always hears, whatever His answer may be.
Therefore I will look unto the Lord - Because things are so, I will trust in the Lord more firmly, wait for him more patiently, and more confidently expect to be supported, defended, and saved.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַאֲנִי֙ | vaani | and I | H589 → | |
| בַּיהוָ֣ה | bayahweh | for Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֲצַפֶּ֔ה | ʾatzapeh | I will watch | H6822 → | |
| אוֹחִ֖ילָה | ʾochilah | I will wait | H3176 → | |
| לֵאלֹהֵ֣י | lelohei | for [the] God of | H430 → | 2601 times |
| יִשְׁעִ֑י | yishi | salvation my | H3468 → | |
| יִשְׁמָעֵ֖נִי | yishmaeni | he will hear me | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| אֱלֹהָֽי׃ | ʾelohai | God my | H430 → | 2601 times |
וַאֲנִי֙and I
vaaniH589 →
בַּיהוָ֣הfor Yahweh
bayahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֲצַפֶּ֔הI will watch
ʾatzapehH6822 →
אוֹחִ֖ילָהI will wait
ʾochilahH3176 →
לֵאלֹהֵ֣יfor [the] God of
leloheiH430 →2601 times
יִשְׁעִ֑יsalvation my
yishiH3468 →
יִשְׁמָעֵ֖נִיhe will hear me
yishmaeniH8085 →1159 times
אֱלֹהָֽי׃God my
ʾelohaiH430 →2601 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 37:7Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
it leads to
- Psalms 27:14
Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- James 5:7–11
Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
- Psalms 62:5
Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.
- Hebrews 10:36–37
You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
- Lamentations 3:25–26
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
- Psalms 27:14
Through
Isaiah 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
it leads to
- John 6:40
For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- Hebrews 12:2
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand…
- John 6:40
Through
Isaiah 25:9And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us…
it leads to
- Genesis 49:18
I await Your salvation, O LORD.
- Genesis 49:18
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About Micah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2069: “My Own Personal Holdfast” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Micah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.