Isaiah chapter 33 - Micah

There seem to be several identifiable parallels to Isaiah chapter thirty-three in the final chapter of Micah. In the first part of chapter seven we read:

“The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.” (Micah 7:2-4)

As you read the next passage which is taken from the thirty-third chapter of Isaiah, compare the words here with the words in Micah 7:2-4 above.

“He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;” (Isaiah 33:15)

The sentiment is the same even if the two passages are written from different angles. The words in each passage make the same claim. Moving down the pages so to speak, (at least in Micah) we find another pair of parallel statements.

“Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.” (Micah 7:7)

“O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.” (Isaiah 33:2)

And, in the next pair different persons are speaking, but the sentiments are similar.

“Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.” (Micah 7:8)

“Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.” (Isaiah 33:10)

There are other ideas conveyed in each text (Isaiah and Micah) that are not quite so similar, but seem to have ideas in common, more than just a shared word or two. They are just listed here in a group.

“In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.” (Micah 7:11)
“The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.” (Micah 7:16)

“Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.” (Isaiah 33:13)

“At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.” (Isaiah 33:3)

“For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.” (Isaiah 33:22)

“Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.” (Micah 5:1)

“The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them” (Micah 2:13)

Chapter seven of the book of Micah appears to have a parallel theme with the thirty-third chapter of Isaiah, that of the corruption of the nation and the loss of any morality.

Chapter seven is, of course, part of the thirty-third book of our Bible, and we have shown here that in theme, and in specifics, it is parallel and connected to the thirty-third chapter of Isaiah.