Mikha 2:6
Konteks2:6 ‘Don’t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,’ they say excitedly. 1
‘These prophets should not preach of such things;
we will not be overtaken by humiliation.’ 2
Mikha 4:12
Konteks4:12 But they do not know what the Lord is planning;
they do not understand his strategy.
He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed 3 at the threshing floor.
[2:6] 1 tn Heb “‘Do not foam at the mouth,’ they foam at the mouth.” The verb נָטַף (nataf) means “to drip.” When used of speech it probably has the nuance “to drivel, to foam at the mouth” (HALOT 694 s.v. נטף). The sinful people tell the
[2:6] 2 tc If one follows the MT as it stands, it would appear that the
[2:6] tn Heb “they should not foam at the mouth concerning these things, humiliation will not be removed.”
[4:12] 3 tn The words “to be threshed” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation to make it clear that the