John Trapp on Micah 1:2

Verſe 2. Heare, all ye people,] He beginneth as Eſay, in a lofty and ſtately ſtile, powring himſelf out in a golden flood of words (as Tully ſpeaketh of Ariſtotles Politicks) and calling for utmoſt attention and affection: as knowing that he had to do with men more deaf then ſea-monſters, and more dull then the very earth they trod on; which is therefore here commanded to hearken, ſith men (that habitable part of Gods earth Pro. 8.31) will not heare and give eare: wherein they are worſe then the inſenſible creatures Pſal. 119.91.

and let the Lord God be witneſſe against you] Here he turneth his ſpeech to the refractary Jewes: ſpeaking to God as a righteous judge and ſwift witneſſe, Judex, Judex, vindex, againſt them if they hearkened not to his meſſage, niſi pareant, ideoque pereant.

the Lord from his holy temple] that is, let him teſtifie from heaven Pſal. 11.4, that he is diſpleaſed with you, and that I have carefully ſought your ſoules-health. Or, from his temple at Ieruſalem wherein ye glory, and where ye think ye have him as faſt bound to you, as the Tyrians had their idol Apollo, whom they chained and nailed to a poſt, that he might not forſake them, when Alexander beſieged their town, and took it. The Heathens had a trick when they beſieged a city,Macrob. lib. 3. cap. 9. Virg. Ae[illegible: 1 letter]. 2. to call the Tutelar gods out of it by a certain charme, as beleeving that it could not otherwiſe be taken. In a like ſenſe whereunto ſome have interpreted the following verſes here.