Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 6:9

9 The LORDS voice cryeth unto the city , and the man of wisdom shall see thy name ; hear ye the rod , and who hath appointed it.

Either by his Judgments, each of which is the Lords voice, he speaks by them, or rather by his Prophets, and whether people hear it, or forbear, the Lord himself is concerned in it.

As to deaf, or to s[illegible: 1 letter]eepy and secure men, who will not hear the milder and softlier calls, the Prophet must cry to them in the loudest manner he can speak.

To every City in Israel and Iudah, but principally to Ierusalem and Samaria, places of greatest concourse, and where the men of greatest sense may reasonably be supposed to dwell, who should hear and consider.

Man is supplyed to make the sence intire, but without that supply the sense might have run plain, And wisdom will hear, which must have been resolved some way like to our Translation, and I know none that better fits, then that our Learned Translators have supplyed. I know not but that the Abstract used here for the Concrete, may express a Superlative Degree, Wisdom, i. e. the wisest will hear, &c.

Rightly apprehend and du[illegible: 1 letter]y reverence the Holiness, Justice and Necessarine[illegible: 1 letter]s of the proceedings of the Lord, with his Power and Majesty in the Execution of his just displeasure, on brutish hardened sinners.

Consider well and discern.

Citizens both of Ierusalem and Samaria, and every other City in the Twelve Tribes.

The punishments that God is now sending, by which he will plead his cause. These are called the rod▪ [illegible: 1 letter]ither because they are from God, who once was, and still would be, a Father to them, or because 'tis a comprehensive word, which takes in the various punishments inflicted.

Hath commissioned it, handleth the rod, hath chosen it out, and strikes with it, whether it be Assyrian, or Babylonian, or both, at several times. This is the plain literal sence, others th[illegible: 3 letters] are which are omitted, because they suit not the design of this work.

Marginal references: Or, thy name [illegible: 1 word] see that [illegible: 1 letter]hich it.