11 The day for building your walls will come, the day for extending your boundaries.
11 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
11 A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
11 Oh, that will be a day! A day for rebuilding your city, a day for stretching your arms, spreading your wings!
11 In the day when your walls are to be built, In that day the decree shall go far and wide.
11 In that day, Israel, your cities will be rebuilt, and your borders will be extended.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Micah 7:11
Commentary on Micah 7:8-13
(Read Micah 7:8-13)
Those truly penitent for sin, will see great reason to be patient under affliction. When we complain to the Lord of the badness of the times, we ought to complain against ourselves for the badness of our hearts. We must depend upon God to work deliverance for us in due time. We must not only look to him, but look for him. In our greatest distresses, we shall see no reason to despair of salvation, if by faith we look to the Lord as the God of our salvation. Though enemies triumph and insult, they shall be silenced and put to shame. Though Zion's walls may long be in ruins, there will come a day when they shall be repaired. Israel shall come from all the remote parts, not turning back for discouragements. Though our enemies may seem to prevail against us, and to rejoice over us, we should not despond. Though cast down, we are not destroyed; we may join hope in God's mercy, with submission to his correction. No hinderances can prevent the favours the Lord intends for his church.