John Trapp on Micah 1:8

Verſe 8. Therefore I will wail and howle,] Good men are uſually more deeply affected with the wretched eſtate of wicked perſons, then they themſelves are. Thus Samuel mourned for Sauls rejection; Daniel was aſtonied and troubled at the import of Nebuchadnezzars dream, chap. 4.19. Habakkuks belly trembled,Hab. 3.16. and his lips quivered at the conſideration of the judgements that were to come upon the Chaldeans. Do we ſo (ſaith Mr. Perkins) at other mens ſmartings.

I will go ſtript,] tàm mente quàm veſte, renting off my garments, and caſting them from me, as if bereft of my wits: Pro demente vel inſano quidam accipiunt, ſaith Calvin here. See Eſay 59.15. with the margent, and Eſay 20.2.

I will make a wailing like the dragons,] which ſucking the Elephants blood, till he fall down dead upon them, and oppreſſe them with his huge bulk, make an horrible howling: ſo horrible (ſaith Palacius out of Pliny and Solinus) that they amaze, yea kill thoſe that hear it. Fides ſit penes autores.

and mourning as the owls,] Heb. as the daughters of the owl, or of the oſtrich: young oſtriches caſt off by their dammes, Job 39 14. Lam. 4.3. and hungerbit howl pitifully, as do alſo the young ravens for like cauſe, Pſal. 147.9. Of the ravens of Arabia it is recorded, that full gorged, they have a tuneable ſweet record: but empty, ſcreech horribly. By theſe ſimilitudes here uſed, the Prophet would expreſſe his griefe to be unexpreſſible.