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      • The sins of Israel and Judah had a profound effect in the sensitive soul of Micah: “For this I will lament and wail; I will go barefoot and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches” (Micah 1:8).
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  1. Micah 1:8-9. Therefore I will wail and howl — I will mourn and lament. I will go stripped and naked — That is, without an upper garment; or with garments rent and torn. This would fitly denote the naked condition to which the ten tribes were to be reduced by their enemies.

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  3. Weeping and Mourning - Because of this I will weep and wail; I will go about barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and moan like an owl. For Samaria’s plague is incurable; it has spread to Judah. ...

  4. Because of this I [Micah] must lament (mourn over with expressions of grief) and wail, I must go barefoot and naked [without outer garments as if robbed]; I must wail like the jackals And lament [with a loud, mournful cry] like the ostriches.

  5. Micah's intention is not only to exhibit publicly his mourning fore the approaching calamity of Judah, but also to set forth in a symbolical form the fate that awaits the Judaeans. And he can only do this by including himself in the nation, and exhibiting the fate of the nation in his own person.

  6. Micah exhorts Judah to mourn deeply because of the massive destruction that will come upon the people of Judah. The reason for this mourning was that the LORD was about to cause the children of your delight to go from you into exile (v 16).

  7. Micah 1:8. ESV For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches. NIV Because of this I will weep and wail; I will go about barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and moan like an owl.

  8. What does Micah 1:8 mean? Read commentary on this popular Bible verse and understand the real meaning behind God's Word using John Gill's Exposition of the Bible.

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