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THE HOLY BIBLE
Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
THE PROPHECY OF MICHEAS
MICHEAS, of Morasti, a little town in the tribe of JUDA, wascontemporary with the prophet ISAIAS: whom he resembles both in hisspirit and his style. He is different from the prophet MICHEAS mentionedin the third book of Kings, chap. 22. For that MICHEAS lived in the daysof 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 shallalso invade Juda and Jerusalem.
1:1. The word of the Lord, that came to Micheas, the Morasthite, in thedays of Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda: which he sawconcerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
1:2. Hear, all ye people: and let the earth give ear, and all that istherein: and let the Lord God be a witness to you, the Lord from hisholy temple.
1:3. For behold the Lord will come forth out of his place: and he willcome down, and will tread upon the high places of the earth.
1:4. And the mountains shall be melted under him: and the valleys shallbe cleft, as wax before the fire, and as waters that run down a steepplace.
1:5. For the wickedness of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of thehouse of Israel. What is the wickedness of Jacob? is it not Samaria? andwhat 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 avineyard is planted: and I will bring down the stones thereof into thevalley, and will lay her foundations bare.
1:7. And all her graven things shall be cut in pieces, and all her wagesshall 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 thehire of a harlot they shall return.
Her wages… That is, her donaries or presents offered to her idols: orthe 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: Iwill 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, ithath 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.<