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Micah
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I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice? See also: Psalms 82:1-5Hosea 5:1Jeremiah 5:4-5You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; See also: Ezekiel 22:27Proverbs 28:4Psalms 53:4who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron. See also: Psalms 14:4Ezekiel 11:3Ezekiel 11:6-7Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.” See also: Proverbs 1:28Isaiah 1:15Ezekiel 8:18The LORD says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray—for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him: See also: Jeremiah 14:14-15Jeremiah 6:14Ezekiel 13:10-16“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them. See also: Isaiah 8:20-22Amos 8:9-10Isaiah 29:10The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.” See also: Isaiah 44:25Zechariah 13:41 Samuel 28:6But as for me, I am full of power by the LORD’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin. See also: Isaiah 58:11 Corinthians 2:12-131 Corinthians 2:4Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity, See also: Isaiah 1:23Psalms 58:1-2Proverbs 17:15who build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. See also: Habakkuk 2:9-12Jeremiah 22:13-17Matthew 27:25Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Isn’t the LORD among us? No disaster will come on us.” See also: Jeremiah 6:13Isaiah 1:23Micah 3:5Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest. See also: Jeremiah 26:18Psalms 79:1Micah 4:1-2
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)8 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Micah 3:1
Ver. 1. I. Heb. and Sept. "He, the Lord, said;" or, Micheas addressed the princes of both kingdoms, under Ezechias. v. 12. Jer. xxvi. 18. --- To know and practice.
Osee vi. 3. C. --- Both rich and poor strove to extort from each other. W.
↑ 1Micah 3:2
Ver. 2. Skins. When some exhorted Tiberius to lay on more taxes, he replied: "a good shepherd must shear the flock, and not tear off the skin." Suet. xxxii.
↑ 2Micah 3:5
Ver. 5. Peace. They pretend goodness, while they do the greatest mischief. ---
Prepare. Lit.
"sanctify," (H.) or denounce war. C. --- False prophets seek their private lucre.
W.
↑ 5Micah 3:6
Ver. 6. Vision. Impostors shall skulk through fear, when the people shall see that they were not sent. v. 7.
↑ 6Micah 3:8
Ver. 8. Spirit. I am no impostor. C. ii. 11.
↑ 8Micah 3:10
Ver. 10. Iniquity. You offer victims unjustly procured, or build your palaces with what belongs to the poor.
↑ 10Micah 3:11
Ver. 11. Hire. It is not lawful to refuse instruction to those who have nothing; nor must priests act solely for a temporal reward, though reason shews that they should be supported by those whom they have to teach. Mat. x. 8, 10. Gal.
vi. 6. and 1 Tim. v. 18. C. --- The judges grew rich by other people's quarrels; and, as all ranks offended, they were justly involved in ruin. v. 12. W.
↑ 11Micah 3:12
Ver. 12. Forests, after its destruction by Nabuchodonosor. C. --- In the space of three years'
neglect, shrubs were growing in the courts of the temple. 1 Mac. iv. 38. H. ---
Rufus ploughed up the spot where the temple had stood, after the Romans had burnt it down. S. Jer. Jos. Bel. vii.
20. --- This prediction made a deep impression on the minds of the people. It caused them to refrain from killing Jeremias. v. 1. C.
↑ 12License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses