Micah 2

Micah 2:4

SHall one] that is to say; whilest you shall weep, your enemies and ill-willers shall 〈…〉de your miseries How hath] this calamity is past restauration: the people will never be able to recover their countrey, nor settle themselves againe in their former estate.

Micah 2:5

Therefore] by reason of the sinnes set downe, v. 1, 2. you shall be put out of all right and share in the Church and people of God: whereof, the driving out of the Holy Land shall be a signe.

Micah 2:6

Prophesie ye not] the Italian, drop not] that is to say; prophesie not. See concerning this manner of speaking, which is very frequent amongst the Prophets, Ezekiel 21:2. Amos 7:16. Now these are words of prophane men, who would hinder the free exercise of the Prophets Office: as Isaiah 30:10. Jeremiah 11:21. Amos 7:13; Amos 7:16 Say they to them that prophesie] the Italian hath it, yet they shall] Gods reply that is to say; they shall preach in dight of you: and if it be not for you ye Rebels, which wrong them; yet it shall be for the salvation of mine Elect; as Isaiah 8:16.

Micah 2:7

O thou] Is not this an execrable boldnesse in you, to oppose your selves against my Prophets? The Spirit] namely; the power and authority of my Spirit; which from time to time hath see my Prophets on to preach my Word: Is it now lessened or weakened, that it should yeeld to your desires? See Jer. 6. 11. and 20. 7, 9. Micah 3:8 Are these] the cause of all these evils and threatenings, which are denounced against you by my Prophets is in you, and not in me; and therefore you wrongfully complaine of my Prophets, as if they were the Authors of all the evill that befalleth you, Isaiah 28:21. Lamentations 3:33 Doe not] if you will be good men, and beleeve, you shall heare nothing from my Prophets, but onely promises and assurances of Graces and Blessings. If you be sinners; but corrigible, and capable of repentance, you shall have by them healthfull meanes of conversion.

Micah 2:8

Even of late] whereas your forefathers shewed their valours in just warres; You use nothing now, but thefts and murthers.

Micah 2:9

The Women] namely; the poore widdowes, out of those houses where they had lived all their time in esse, with their Husbands and children Taken away] you bring them into such a state of misery and slavery, that the splendor and honour of being my children, and members of my people, appeares in them no more.

Micah 2:10

Arise] you have thought to settle your selves in your countrey in faire and magnificent houses in rest; but I will shortly drive you out into captivity It shall] the pollution of the Countrey by publicke and raigning sinnes, shall be a cause that you shall not live in rest nor security; but that you shall be driven out and dispersed: as Lev. 18. 25, 28. and 20. 22. Jer. 9. 19. and 10. 18. Ezekiel 36:12.

Micah 2:11

If a man] namely; false Prophets, who say they have divine inspirations, and dally with the people promising them good, and plenty, are those whom they accept of, and hearken unto. See Isaiah 30:10.

Micah 2:12

I will surely] an Evangelicall promise of gathering together the universall Church, under the Kingdome of Christ, Jerermah 31. 10. contrary to the precedent dispersion Bozra] a place in the Land of Moab, abounding in cattell and pastures.

Micah 2:13

The breaker up] I will take away all hinderances, which may hinder the spirituall deliverance of the Church: beating downe, and laying plaine all manner of oppositions, Isa. 57. 14. and 62. 10 Their King] namely; Jesus Christ, Hosea 1:11.