Judg 5:5, Mic 1:4 | JFB | STEP | 4, 5. Allusion is here made, in general terms, to God's interposition on behalf of His people. Seir . . . the field of Edom —represent the mountain range and plain extending along the south from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic Gulf. thou wentest out —indicates the storm to have proceeded from the south or southeast.

Judges 5:5

4, 5. Allusion is here made, in general terms, to God's interposition on behalf of His people.

Seir . . . the field of Edom—represent the mountain range and plain extending along the south from the Dead Sea to the Elanitic Gulf.

thou wentest out—indicates the storm to have proceeded from the south or southeast.

Micah 1:4

4. Imagery from earthquakes and volcanic agency, to describe the terrors which attend Jehovah's coming in judgment (compare Jud 5:5). Neither men of high degree, as the mountains, nor men of low degree, as the valleys, can secure themselves or their land from the judgments of God.

as wax— (Ps 97:5; compare Isa 64:1-3). The third clause, "as wax," &c., answers to the first in the parallelism, "the mountains shall be molten"; the fourth, "as the waters," &c., to the second, "the valleys shall be cleft." As wax melts by fire, so the mountains before God, at His approach; and as waters poured down a steep cannot stand but are diffused abroad, so the valleys shall be cleft before Jehovah.