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Micah 7:15 Explained in Context

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Verse 15. According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.

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Quick Meaning

This verse answers with promised wonders like the days of the Exodus from Egypt.

Read It With

  • Micah 7:14-17

Read Micah 7:15 with 7:14-17. This verse answers with promised wonders like the days of the Exodus from Egypt. The complete unit establishes this movement: The community asks the divine shepherd to restore pasture and show new-exodus wonders; the nations' humiliation and fear express reversed imperial power but do not license ethnic contempt or cruelty.

Why This Verse Appears Here

The prayer asks restored security in shepherd terms and prepares the final doxology by attributing deliverance to the LORD rather than human force. Within that movement, this verse answers with promised wonders like the days of the Exodus from Egypt.

Follow the Context

  1. The speaker asks the LORD to shepherd the heritage with a rod and restore pasture in Carmel, Bashan, and Gilead.
  2. The LORD promises wonders like the days of the Exodus.
  3. Nations see and are ashamed of their power, covering mouth and ears.
  4. They are pictured licking dust and trembling from defensive places before the LORD.

Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation

“marvellous things”

In plain language: wonders recalling divine liberation

answers with promised wonders like the days of the Exodus from Egypt. New-exodus hope recalls liberation while leaving the form and timing of future wonders unspecified.

Why it matters: The wording carries interpretive or ethical risk that requires the complete unit and stated limits.

How certain? probable

What This Verse Is Not Saying

The wonder promise does not guarantee miraculous healing on demand or supply an end-times schedule.

What Remains True

New-exodus hope recalls liberation while leaving the form and timing of future wonders unspecified.

How It Can Shape Life

  • Pray for deliverance without promising spectacles or blaming people when miracles are not visible.

Teach It Back

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Read Micah 7:14-17 — The Shepherd Prayer Seeks New-Exodus Care
Sources used for this Verse Lens

How certain is this explanation? probable

Where care is needed

The speaker shift and exact future horizon remain debated.

These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.

Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.

Exact location: Micah 7:14-17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Micah

Open Scriptures

Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, clause relationships, wordplays, names, and the base text behind translation discussion.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Mic.xml, 7:14-17

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translation and translator notes

NET Bible: Micah with translators' notes

Biblical Studies Press

Biblical Studies Press, 2006

Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, literary, historical, and uncertainty notes.

Exact location: NET Bible Micah PDF, printed pp. 1751, translation and notes on 7:14-17

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