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Listen now to what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say. See also: Jeremiah 22:29 Deuteronomy 32:1 Micah 1:2Hear, you mountains, the LORD’s indictment, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a case against his people, and he will contend with Israel. See also: Hosea 4:1 Hosea 12:2 Isaiah 1:18My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me! See also: Jeremiah 2:5 Isaiah 43:22-23 Jeremiah 2:31For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. See also: Exodus 12:51 Deuteronomy 7:8 Psalms 136:10-11My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.” See also: Joshua 5:9-10 Numbers 25:1 Judges 5:11How shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? See also: Psalms 51:16-17 Romans 10:2-3 Psalms 40:6-8Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? See also: 2 Kings 16:3 Psalms 51:16 1 Samuel 15:22He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? See also: Deuteronomy 10:12-13 Proverbs 21:3 Colossians 3:12The LORD’s voice calls to the city— and wisdom fears your name— “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it. See also: Hosea 14:9 Revelation 3:19 Isaiah 30:27Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed? See also: Amos 3:10 Amos 8:5-6 Proverbs 20:10Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful weights? See also: Hosea 12:7 Leviticus 19:36 Proverbs 16:11Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech. See also: Jeremiah 9:8 Isaiah 1:23 Hosea 7:13Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. See also: Psalms 107:17-18 Deuteronomy 28:21-22 Leviticus 26:16You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your hunger will be within you. You will store up, but not save, and that which you save I will give up to the sword. See also: Hosea 4:10 Isaiah 65:13 Leviticus 26:26You will sow, but won’t reap. You will tread the olives, but won’t anoint yourself with oil; and crush grapes, but won’t drink the wine. See also: Zephaniah 1:13 Amos 5:11 Jeremiah 12:13For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and your inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of my people.” See also: Jeremiah 51:51 Jeremiah 7:24 Isaiah 25:8

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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 6:1

Ver. 1. The mountains, &c. That is, the princes, the great ones of the people.

Ch. --- But Heb.

intimates real mountains, which had witnessed the impiety of the people, (C.) and had been defiled with their altars, &c. Prot. "Contend thou before the," &c.

(H.) as God's advocate. He condescends to justify his conduct towards Israel.

Is. iii. 13. C. --- He had shewn them great favours, but they were ungrateful. Off.

for good Frid. W.

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Micah 6:4

Ver. 4. Slaves. Their prison, in Algiers, &c. is dreadful. C. --- Mary. She taught the women.

Chal. Theod. --- She was a figure of Christ's mother, as Moses and Aaron were of himself. W.

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Micah 6:5

Ver. 5. 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. Ch. --- Galgala,

"limits," may denote those of the Jordan, between which river and Setim Israel was encamped.

Num. xxii. and xxv. --- Justices. Sym. "mercies." C.

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Micah 6:6

Ver. 6. What shall I offer, &c. This is spoken in the person of the people, desiring to be informed what they are to do to please God. Ch. --- They can answer nothing in their own defence.

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Micah 6:7

Ver. 7. Fat. Heb. "torrents of oil." --- First-born, like Jephte, or the king of Moab.

Jud. xi. and 4

K. iii. 27. Saturn taught the Phœnicians this impiety. Eus. præp. iv. 16. C.

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Micah 6:8

Ver. 8. Solicitous. Heb. also, "humbly." H. --- This was preferable to all other sacrifices of the old law, (W.) and was frequently inculcated. Deut. x. 12. Ps.

xlix. 9. Is. i. 11. Yet the carnal Jews always made perfection consist in exterior ceremonies.

Ver 9. City, to all mankind. --- Salvation. Heb. "wisdom shall consider thy name." Syr.

"doctrine to those who fear his name." --- It? Who will attend? C.

Ver 10. Full of wrath, &c. That is, highly provoking in the sight of God. Ch. ---

False weights are often condemned. Deut. xxxv. 13. C.

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Micah 6:14

Ver. 14. And thy. Sept. "I will cast thee away into thyself." H. --- Hold of some fruit. C. --- Thy wife shall miscarry; (Vat. &c.) or if she bring forth, the children shall perish by the sword.

Ver 15. New. Sept. "grave." H. --- "It is good for thee, when thou knowest thy error, to have no disciples." S. Jer.

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Micah 6:16

Ver. 16. The statutes of Amri, &c. The wicked ways of Amri and Achab, idolatrous kings. Ch.

--- They were the most infamous of Israel. 3 K. xvi. 25. 30. W. --- Heb. "the statutes of Amri are kept." Sept. "The precepts ( ámi) of my people shall parish" H. --- You, rich men. C. --- Sept.

"you shall receive the reproach of people." H.

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License: 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

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