John Trapp on Micah 1:6

Verſe 6. Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field,] i.e. like as when ſtones are gathered out of a field, they are laid together on heaps: ſo I will take courſe that where Samaria now is, there ſhall be nothing to be ſeen, but heaps of ſtones and rubbiſh. God is the true [non-Latin text not transcribed]: for thou haſt made of a city an heap, of a defenced city a ruine, a palace of ſtrangers to be no city, it ſhall never be built, Eſay 25.2. Of Rome it was long ſince propheſied: Tota eris in cineres, quaſi nunquam Roma faiſſes.

O that God would haſten that day: Scipio foreſaw it, and wept, ſc. when he ſaw Carthage ſet all on a light fire by himſelf. In the greatneſſe of the Turkiſh Empire are ſwallowed up many kingdomes and countreys: beſides all thoſe Churches and places ſo much ſpoken of in Scripture, the Romans onely excepted: yet no doubt for their many and mighty ſinnes, Time ſhall triumph over this ſo great a Monarchy, when it ſhall but then live by fame, as others now do.Turk. hiſt. pref. Cedren. Jam ſeges eſt ubi Troia fuit. Though thou build thy walls as high as heaven (ſaid the Oracle to wicked Phocas) yet ſinne that lieth at the foundation, will one day over-turn them.

and as plantings of a vineyard,] that is, it ſhall be made a place fit for the planting of vines: it ſhall be utterly raſed and haraſed.— Ʋni mihi pergamo reſtant Incola captivo quae bove victor erat. Bacchus amat colles. A Lapide obſerveth the fitneſſe of the expreſſion here uſed, in that Samaria was ſcituate on an hill that bore vines: and before it was a city, it had been a vineyard: God threatneth to make it ſo again, and ſo to ſtain the pride of all its glory: ſee what a trouble-town ſinne is. Surely did people but know what it will once coſt them, and cauſe to them, they durſt not but be innocent.

and I will pour down the ſtones thereof into the valley,] that is, into a by corner. Elapidation is neceſſary to a vine-yard, Eſay 5.2. there being no poſſeſſion that requireth more pains and care, as Cato hath obſerved.

and I will diſcover the foundation thereof.] I will not leave a ſtone upon a ſtone, nor any foot-ſtep of ſo ſtately a city, that hath ſo long time been a cage of unclean birds, an Augean ſtable of abominable idolatries. God, as he hath loving reſpects to the places of his ſervants birth and abode, Pſal. 87.6. Eſay 49.16. ſo he ſets the marks of his wrath upon thoſe places where foul ſinnes have been perpetrated, as upon our Abbeys and Monaſteries, whoſe very foundations are laid naked.