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Micah
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But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it. See also: Isaiah 2:1-4Jeremiah 3:17Zechariah 14:16-21Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s 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 will go out of Zion, and the LORD’s word from Jerusalem; See also: Isaiah 2:3Jeremiah 31:6Acts 1:8and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more. See also: Isaiah 2:4Joel 3:9-16Matthew 25:31-32But every man will sit under his vine and under his fig tree. No one will make them afraid, for the mouth of the LORD of Armies has spoken. See also: Zechariah 3:101 Kings 4:25Ezekiel 39:26Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever. See also: Zechariah 10:12Colossians 3:17Joshua 24:15“In that day,” says the LORD, “I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted; See also: Zephaniah 3:19Isaiah 56:8Ezekiel 34:12-17and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.” See also: Daniel 7:14Luke 1:33Micah 5:7-8You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come. Yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem. See also: Isaiah 1:26Revelation 22:5Zechariah 9:10Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail? See also: Jeremiah 8:19Lamentations 4:20Isaiah 3:1-7Be in pain, and labor to give birth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. See also: Isaiah 48:20Isaiah 43:14Hosea 2:14Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.” See also: Obadiah 1:12Isaiah 5:25-30Micah 7:10But they don’t know the thoughts of the LORD, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor. See also: Isaiah 55:8Jeremiah 29:11Romans 11:33-34Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze. You will beat in pieces many peoples. I will devote their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth. See also: Isaiah 41:15-16Daniel 2:44Isaiah 23:18
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 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 4:1
Ver. 1. Last days. This sometimes means after this. Is. ix. 1. But here it denotes the time which shall elapse from Christ till the day of eternity. The Jews allow that this prediction regards the Messias, though they will not explain it of Jesus Christ. Their exceptions are well refuted by Ribera. W. --- It is plain that it can be verified nowhere else, but in the Church of Christ; though some expressions may, as usual, refer to the return of the captives. Isaias, (ii. 2.) &c.
had already used the like terms under Ozias. Juda is here comforted, after its ruin had been denounced.
↑ 1Micah 4:2
Ver. 2. Jerusalem. No other nation ever embraced the Jewish law. But all received the gospel, (C.) which was first preached at, Jerusalem, by people of that country. H. --- "We are of yesterday, and we fill all your places." Tert.
↑ 2Micah 4:3
Ver. 3. Judge, or "rule" (Judg. viii. 22.) as Christ does over all. C. --- Plough-shares. Heb.
"scythes," (H.) or "coulters." W. Mart. xiv. 34. C. --- Learn, &c. 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.
Ch. --- They will sustain injuries meekly. 1 Cor. vi. W. --- When Christ appeared, the Roman empire enjoyed peace. C. --- Aspera tum positis mitescent sæcula bellis, &c. Æn. i.
↑ 3Micah 4:4
Ver. 4. Fig-tree. Such a happiness would not suit the ambitious. Zac. iii. 10.
↑ 4Micah 4:5
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 5. And ever. After the captivity the Gentiles continued to worship idols, and the Jews had a greater aversion for them; but when the gospel was propagated, idols fell into contempt, and the Jewish law was at an end, while heretics were varying continually. The Church alone is stable, and built upon the rock. C. --- All such quiet people as walk in the name of the Lord, will keep peace even with those who hate it, (Ps. cxix.) suffering persecution with joy.
Heb. x. 34. S. Iræn.
iv. 67. S. Cyr. &c. W.
↑ 5Micah 4:6
Ver. 6. Halteth, as the synagogue did, (3 K. xviii. 21.) bringing nothing to perfection, (Heb. vii.
19.) while the Gentiles were abandoned to idolatry. From both Christ chose his Church. Acts xxi. 20. &c. C. --- The Jews will be at last converted. W.
↑ 6Micah 4:7
Ver. 7. Remnant, or numerous progeny. --- Afflicted. Heb. and Sept.
"repudiated," (C.) or "cast off." H.
↑ 7Micah 4:8
Ver. 8. Cloudy. Hebrew." fortress, or ophel, " a tower or wall near the temple. 2
Esd. iii. 27. ---
Flock. Jerusalem was no better, after the Chaldeans had destroyed it. 4 K. xvii.
9. Yet there Zorobabel, the Machabees, and Christ displayed their power. It was the cradle of the Church.
Some take this to refer to Bethlehem, as C. v. 2. C. --- Shall it come. Sept. add,
"from Babylon."
After the captivity the Jews shall flourish, as the Church shall prove victorious over all her persecutors. H.
↑ 8Micah 4:9
Ver. 9. No king, after Sedecias was taken. C. --- The two tribes shall be led into captivity and released. v. 12. W.
↑ 9Micah 4:11
Ver. 11. Sion. Let us enter the sanctuary and plunder it. Cambyses was instigated to fall upon the Jews lately returned. Ezec. xxxviii. 11. His rapacious designs were frustrated, as those of persecutors will be. C.
↑ 11Micah 4:12
Ver. 12. Hay. Prot. "sheaves." H. --- People were thus often trodden to death by oxen. Athen.
xii. 5.
↑ 12Micah 4:13
Ver.13. Brass. Fear nothing. The Jews did not attack the army of Cambyses, (Ezec. xxxviii. 21.
and xxxix. 10. C.) at least at first. H. --- But what God did for them is attributed to them. C. ---
Immolate. Sept. "devote to the Lord their multitude, and," &c. Prot. "gain," (H.) or what spoils they have taken. C.
↑ 13License: 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