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Micah Chapter 4 verse 11 Holy Bible

ASV Micah 4:11

And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see `our desire' upon Zion.
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BBE Micah 4:11

And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.
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DARBY Micah 4:11

And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be profaned, and let our eye look upon Zion.
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KJV Micah 4:11

Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
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WBT Micah 4:11

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WEB Micah 4:11

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, And let our eye gloat over Zion.'
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YLT Micah 4:11

And now, gathered against thee have been many nations, who are saying: `Let her be defiled, and our eyes look on Zion.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 11-13. - § 7. Rescued from Babylon, Zion overcomes all enemies in the strength of God. Verse 11. - Now also; and now. A new scene is presented in contrast to the view in vers, 1-4. Many nations are gathered against thee. Primarily the Assyrians are meant (Isaiah 33:3), whose armies were composed of various nationalities (Isaiah 22:6; see below, Micah 5:5). Pusey thinks that the reference is rather to the attacks of petty enemies, e.g. in Maccabean times, and in the Samaritans' opposition to the rebuilding of the temple. Cheyne would place vers. 5-10 in a parenthesis, and connect the present with the ideal description in vers. 1-4. Let her be defiled; i.e.. profaned, despoiled of her boasted holiness and inviolability. LXX., ἐπιχαρούμεθα, "we will rejoice." The Vulgate, lapidetur, points to her punishment as an adulteress, which does not suit the context. Let our eye look upon Zion. The heathen anticipate with malicious pleasure the sight of the humiliation of Jerusalem (comp. Obadiah 1:12, 13).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Let her be defiled.--The seventy-fourth Psalm records the calamity foreseen by the prophet: "They have cast fire into Thy sanctuary, they have defiled (by casting down) the dwelling-place of Thy Name to the ground."Look upon--i.e., contemplate her destruction with pleasure.