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He is different from the prophet MICHEAS mentioned +in the third book of Kings, chap. 22. For that MICHEAS lived in the days +of king ACHAB, one hundred and fifty years before the time of EZECHIAS, +under whom this MICHEAS prophesied. + + +Micheas Chapter 1 + +Samaria for her sins shall be destroyed by the Assyrians; they shall +also invade Juda and Jerusalem. + +1:1. The word of the Lord, that came to Micheas, the Morasthite, in the +days of Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda: which he saw +concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. + +1:2. Hear, all ye people: and let the earth give ear, and all that is +therein: and let the Lord God be a witness to you, the Lord from his +holy temple. + +1:3. For behold the Lord will come forth out of his place: and he will +come down, and will tread upon the high places of the earth. + +1:4. And the mountains shall be melted under him: and the valleys shall +be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as waters that run down a steep +place. + +1:5. For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the +house of Israel. What is the wickedness of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and +what are the high places of Juda? are they not Jerusalem? + +1:6. And I will make Samaria as a heap of stones in the field when a +vineyard is planted: and I will bring down the stones thereof into the +valley, and will lay her foundations bare. + +1:7. And all her graven things shall be cut in pieces, and all her wages +shall be burnt with fire, and I will bring to destruction all her idols: +for they were gathered together of the hire of a harlot, and unto the +hire of a harlot they shall return. + +Her wages... That is, her donaries or presents offered to her idols: or +the hire of all her traffic and labour. Ibid. Of the hire of a harlot, +etc... They were gathered together by one idolatrous city, viz., +Samaria: and they shall be carried away to another idolatrous city, +viz., Ninive. + +1:8. Therefore will I lament, and howl: I will go stript and naked: I +will make a wailing like the dragons, and a mourning like the ostriches. + +1:9. Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda, it +hath touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. + +It hath touched the gate, etc... That is, the destruction of Samaria +shall be followed by the invasion of my people of Juda, and the +Assyrians shall come and lay all waste even to the confines of +Jerusalem. + +1:10. Declare ye it not in Geth, weep ye not with tears: in the house of +Dust sprinkle yourselves with dust. + +Declare ye it not in Geth... Viz., amongst the Philistines, lest they +rejoice at your calamity.-Ibid. Weep ye not, etc... Keep in your tears, +that you may not give your enemies an occasion of insulting over you; +but in your own houses, or in your house of dust, your earthly +habitation, sprinkle yourselves with dust, and put on the habit of +penitents. Some take the house of dust (in Hebrew, Aphrah) to be the +proper name of a city. + +1:11. And pass away, O thou that dwellest in the beautiful place, +covered with thy shame: she went not forth that dwelleth in the +confines: the house adjoining shall receive mourning from you, which +stood by herself. + +Thou that dwellest in the Beautiful place, viz., in Samaria. In the +Hebrew the Beautiful place is expressed by the word Sapir, which some +take for the proper name of a city.--Ibid. She went not forth, etc... +that is, they that dwelt in the confines came not forth, but kept +themselves within, for fear.--Ibid. The house adjoining,etc... Viz., +Judea and Jerusalem, neighbours to Samaria, and partners in her sins, +shall share also in her mourning and calamity; though they have +pretended to stand by themselves, trusting in their strength. + +1:12. For she is become weak unto good that dwelleth in bitterness: for +evil is come down from the Lord into the gate of Jerusalem. + +She is become weak, etc... Jerusalem is become weak unto any good; +because she dwells in the bitterness of sin. + +1:13. A tumult of chariots hath astonished the inhabitants of Lachis: it +is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Sion for in thee were found +the crimes of Israel. + +It is the beginning, etc... That is, Lachis was the first city of Juda +that learned from Samaria the worship of idols, and communicated it to +Jerusalem. + +1:14. Therefore shall she send messengers to the inheritance of Geth: +the houses of lying to deceive the kings of Israel. + +Therefore shall she send, etc... Lachis shall send to Geth for help: but +in vain: for Geth, instead of helping, shall be found to be a house of +lying and deceit to Israel. + +1:15. Yet will I bring an heir to thee that dwellest in Maresa: even to +Odollam shall the glory of Israel come. + +An heir, etc... Maresa (which was the name of a city of Juda) signifies +inheritance: but here God by his prophet tells the Jews, that he will +bring them an heir to take possession of their inheritance: and that the +glory of Israel shall be obliged to give place, and to retire even to +Odollam, a city in the extremity of their dominions. And therefore he +exhorts them to penance in the following verse. + +1:16. Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge +thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from +thee. + +Micheas Chapter 2 + +The Israelites by their crying injustices provoke God to punish them. He +shall at last restore Jacob. + +2:1. Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in +your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is +against God. + +2:2. And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and +houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, +a man and his inheritance. + +2:3. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against this +family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not +walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time. + +2:4. In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall +be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the +portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he +is returning that will divide our land? + +How shall he depart, etc... How do you pretend to say that the Assyrian +is departing; when indeed he is coming to divide our lands amongst his +subjects? + +2:5. Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in +the assembly of the Lord. + +Thou shalt have none, etc... Thou shalt have no longer any lot or +inheritance in the land of the people of the Lord. + +2:6. Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall +not take them. + +It shall not drop, etc... That is, the prophecy shall not come upon +these. Such were the sentiments of the people that were unwilling to +believe the threats of the prophets. + +2:7. The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or +are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh +uprightly? + +2:8. But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have +taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless +you have turned to war. + +You have taken away, etc... You have even stripped people of their +necessary garments: and have treated such as were innocently passing on +the way, as if they were at war with you. + +2:9. You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in +which they took delight: you have taken my praise forever from their +children. + +You have cast out, etc... either by depriving them of their houses: or, +by your crimes, given occasion to their being carried away captives, and +their children, by that means, never learning to praise the Lord. + +2:10. Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that +uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous +corruption. + +2:11. Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather +spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkeness: and it +shall be this people upon whom it shall drop. + +Would God, etc... The prophet could have wished, out of his love to his +people, that he might be deceived in denouncing to them these evils that +were to fall upon them: but by conforming himself to the will of God, he +declares to them, that he is sent to prophesy, literally to let drop +upon them, the wine of God's indignation, with which they should be made +drunk; that is, stupified and cast down. + +2:12. I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will +bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a +flock in the fold, as sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall +make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men. + +2:13. For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall +divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their +king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them. + +Micheas Chapter 3 + +For the sins of the rich oppressing the poor, of false prophets +flattering for lucre, and of judges perverting justice, Jerusalem and +the temple shall be destroyed. + +3:1. And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house +of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment, + +3:2. You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their +skins from them and their flesh from their bones? + +3:3. Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin +off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, +and as flesh in the midst of the pot. + +3:4. Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he +will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved wickedly +in their devices. + +3:5. Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people +err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not +something into their mouth, they prepare war against him. + +3:6. Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to +you instead of divination: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, +and the day shall be darkened over them. + +3:7. And they shall be confounded that see visions, and the diviners +shall be confounded: and they shall all cover their faces, because there +is no answer of God. + +3:8. But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, +with judgment and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to +Israel his sin. + +3:9. Hear this, ye princes of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the +house of Israel: you that abhor judgment and pervert all that is right. + +3:10. You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. + +3:11. Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught +for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the +Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come +among us. + +3:12. Therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed as a field, and +Jerusalem shall be as a heap of stones, and the mountain of the temple +as the high places of the forests. + +Micheas Chapter 4 + +The glory of the church of Christ, by the conversion of the Gentiles. +The Jews shall be carried captives to Babylon, and be delivered again. + +4:1. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of +the house of the Lord shall be prepared in the top of the mountains, and +high above the hills: and people shall flow to it. + +4:2. And many nations shall come in haste, and say: Come, let us go up +to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob: and +he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law +shall go forth out of Sion, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem. + +4:3. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations +afar off: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their +spears into spades: nation shall not take sword against nation: neither +shall they learn war anymore. + +Neither shall they learn, etc... The law of Christ is a law of peace; +and all his true subjects, as much as lies in them love and keep peace +with all the world. + +4:4. And every man shall sit under his vine, and under his fig tree, and +there shall be none to make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of +hosts hath spoken. + +4:5. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god: but we +will walk in the name of the Lord, our God, for ever and ever. + +4:6. In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather up her that halteth: and +her that I had cast out, I will gather up: and her whom I had afflicted. + +4:7. And I will make her that halted, a remnant: and her that had been +afflicted, a mighty nation: and the Lord will reign over them in Mount +Sion, from this time now and forever. + +4:8. And thou, O cloudy tower of the flock, of the daughter of Sion, +unto thee shall it come: yea the first power shall come, the kingdom to +the daughter of Jerusalem. + +4:9. Now, why art thou drawn together with grief? Hast thou no king in +thee, or is thy counselor perished, because sorrow hath taken thee as a +woman in labour. + +4:10. Be in pain and labour, O daughter of Sion, as a woman that +bringeth forth: for now shalt thou go out of the city, and shalt dwell +in the country, and shalt come even to Babylon, there thou shalt be +delivered: there the Lord will redeem thee out of the hand of thy +enemies. + +4:11. And now many nations are gathered together against thee, and they +say: Let her be stoned: and let our eye look upon Sion. + +4:12. But they have not known the thoughts of the Lord, and have not +understood his counsel: because he hath gathered them together as the +hay of the floor. + +4:13. Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thy horn +iron, and thy hoofs I will make brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces +many peoples, and shalt immolate the spoils of them to the Lord, and +their strength to the Lord of the whole earth. + +Micheas Chapter 5 + +The birth of Christ in Bethlehem: his reign and spiritual conquests. + +5:1. Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have +laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the +judge of Israel. + +Daughter of the robber... Some understand this of Babylon; which robbed +and pillaged the temple of God: others understand it of Jerusalem; by +reason of the many rapines and oppressions committed there. + +5:2. And thou Bethlehem Ephrata, art a little one among the thousands of +Juda, out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be the ruler in +Israel: and his going forth is from the beginning, from the days of +eternity. + +His going forth, etc... That is, he who as man shall be born in thee, as +God was born of his Father from all eternity. + +5:3. Therefore will he give them up even till the time wherein she that +travaileth shall bring forth: and the remnant of his brethren shall be +converted to the children of Israel. + +5:4. And he shall stand, and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the +height of the name of the Lord, his God: and they shall be converted, +for now shall he be magnified even to the ends of the earth. + +5:5. And this man shall be our peace, when the Assyrian shall come into +our land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall +raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. + +The Assyrian... That is, the persecutors of the church: who are here +called Assyrians by the prophet: because the Assyrians were at that time +the chief enemies and persecutors of the people of God.-Ibid. Seven +shepherds, etc... Viz., the pastors of God's church, and the defenders +of the faith. The number seven in scripture is taken to signify many: +and when eight is joined with it, we are to understand that the number +will be very great. + +5:6. And they shall feed the land of Assyria with the sword, and the +land of Nemrod with the spears thereof: and he shall deliver us from the +Assyrian when he shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in +our borders. + +They shall feed, etc... They shall make spiritual conquests in the lands +of their persecutors, with the word of the spirit, which is the word of +God. Eph. 6.17. + +5:7. And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, as +a dew from the Lord, and as drops upon the grass, which waiteth not for +man, nor tarrieth for the children of men. + +The remnant of Jacob... Viz., the apostles, and the first preachers of +the Jewish nation; whose doctrine, like dew, shall make the plants of +the converted Gentiles grow up, without waiting for any man to cultivate +them by human learning. + +5:8. And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles, in the midst +of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forests, and as a +young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, when he shall go through, and +tread down, and take there is none to deliver. + +As a lion, etc... This denotes the fortitude of these first preachers; +and their success in their spiritual enterprises. + +5:9. Thy hand shall be lifted up over thy enemies, and all thy enemies +shall be cut off. + +5:10. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will +take away thy horses out of the midst of thee, and will destroy thy +chariots. + +I will take away thy horses, etc... Some understand this, and all that +follows to the end of the chapter, as addressed to the enemies of the +church. But it may as well be understood of the converts to the church: +who should no longer put their trust in any of these things. + +5:11. And I will destroy the cities of thy land, and will throw down all +thy strong holds, and I will take away sorceries out of thy hand, and +there shall be no divinations in thee. + +5:12. And I will destroy thy graven things, and thy statues, out of the +midst of thee: and thou shalt no more adore the works of thy hands. + +5:13. And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: and will +crush thy cities. + +5:14. And I will execute vengeance in wrath, and in indignation, among +all the nations that have not given ear. + +Micheas Chapter 6 + +God expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude and sins: for which +they shall be punished. + +6:1. Hear ye what the Lord saith: Arise, contend thou in judgment +against the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. + +The mountains, etc... That is, the great ones, the princes of the +people. + +6:2. Let the mountains hear the judgment of the Lord, and the strong +foundations of the earth: for the Lord will enter into judgment with his +people, and he will plead against Israel. + +6:3. O my people, what have I done to thee, or in what have I molested +thee? answer thou me. + +6:4. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and delivered thee +out of the house of slaves: and I sent before thy face Moses, and Aaron, +and Mary. + +6:5. O my people, remember, I pray thee, what Balach, the king of Moab, +purposed: and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him, from Setim to +Galgal, that thou mightest know the justice of the Lord. + +From Setim to Galgal... He puts them in mind of the favour he did them, +in not suffering them to be quite destroyed by the evil purpose of +Balach, and the wicked counsel of Balaam: and then gives them a hint of +the wonders he wrought, in order to bring them into the land of Promise, +by stopping the course of the Jordan, in their march from Setim to +Galgal. + +6:6. What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? wherewith shall I +kneel before the high God? shall I offer holocausts unto him, and calves +of a year old? + +What shall I offer, etc... This is spoken in the person of the people, +desiring to be informed what they are to do to please God. + +6:7. May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many +thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness, +the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? + +6:8. I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth +of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk +solicitous with thy God. + +6:9. The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to +them that fear thy name: hear O ye tribes, and who shall approve it? + +6:10. As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures +of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath. + +Full of wrath, etc... That is, highly provoking in the sight of God. + +6:11. Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the +bag? + +6:12. By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the +inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in +their mouth. + +6:13. And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins. + +6:14. Thou shalt eat, but shalt not be filled: and thy humiliation shall +be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not save: +and those whom thou shalt save, I will give up to the sword. + +6:15. Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives, +but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not +drink the wine. + +6:16. For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the +house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I +should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, +and you shall bear the reproach of my people. + +The statutes of Amri, etc... The wicked ways of Amri and Achab, +idolatrous kings. + +Micheas Chapter 7 + +The prophet laments, that notwithstanding all his preaching, the +generality are still corrupt in their manners: therefore their +desolation is at hand: but they shall be restored again and prosper; and +all mankind shall be redeemed by Christ. + +7:1. Woe is me, for I am become as one that gleaneth in autumn the +grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat, my soul desired the +first ripe figs. + +7:2. The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none +upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his +brother to death. + +7:3. The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and +the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of +his soul, and they have troubled it. + +7:4. He that is best among them, is as a brier, and he that is +righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy +visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction. + +7:5. Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of +thy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom. + +7:6. For the son dishonoureth the father, and the daughter riseth up +against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law: and a +man's enemies are they of his own household. + +7:7. But I will look towards the Lord, I will wait for God, my saviour: +my God will hear me. + +7:8. Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall +arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light. + +7:9. I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I have sinned against +him: until he judge my cause, and execute judgement for me: he will +bring me forth into the light, I shall behold his justice. + +7:10. And my enemy shall behold, and she shall be covered with shame, +who saith to me: Where is the Lord thy God? my eyes shall look down upon +her: now shall she be trodden under foot as the mire of the streets. + +She shall be covered, etc... Viz., Babylon my enemy. + +7:11. The day shall come, that thy walls may be built up: in that day +shall the law be far removed. + +The law... Viz., of thy enemies, who have tyrannized over thee. + +7:12. In that day they shall come even from Assyria to thee, and to the +fortified cities: and from the fortified cities even to the river, and +from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain. + +7:13. And the land shall be made desolate because of the inhabitants +thereof, and for the fruit of their devices. + +The land, etc... Viz., of Babylon. + +7:14. Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy inheritance, them +that dwell alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: they shall feed +in Basan and Galaad, according to the days of old. + +7:15. According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt, I +will shew him wonders. + +7:16. The nations shall see, and shall be confounded at all their +strength: they shall put the hand upon the mouth, their ears shall be +deaf. + +7:17. They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of +the earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the +Lord, our God, and shall fear thee. + +7:18. Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest +by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in +no more, because he delighteth in mercy. + +7:19. He will turn again, and have mercy on us: he will put away our +iniquities: and he will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea. + +7:20. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, the mercy to Abraham: which +thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 38 *** + +*********** This file should be named 8338.txt or 8338.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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