Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
The Prophet, as I have already said, seems to be inconsistent with himself: for after having spoken of the restoration of the land, he now abruptly says, that it would be deserted, because God had been extremely provoked by the wickedness of the people.
When all looks black around you, look upward, all may look bright above. Princes fail and men prove false, but God is faithful and gracious. The case is bad, but it is not desperate; we have a God to fly to in whom we may rejoice.
AI summary
Commenting on Micah 7:7-13
Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate,.... Not the land of Chaldea, as some; or the land of the nations, as Jarchi and Kimchi; but the land of Israel. That part of it, which was possessed by the ten tribes, was made desolate by Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and that which was inhabited by the two tribes, by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and this desolation was...