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John Trapp on Micah 6:14

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Micah6:14

Verſe 14. Thou ſhalt eat, but not be ſatisfied] Either as not having enough to ſatisfy; but priſoners pittance, ſo much only as will keep life and ſoule together: Or elſe, troubled with a bulimy, an appetitus caninus, a weakeneſie of the diſgeſtive faculty, ſo that thy meate feeds thee not: the ſtaffe of it being alſo broken by God, the nutritive property of it being taken away. See the Note on Hag. 1.6.

and thy caſting down ſhall be in the middeſt of thee] Thou ſhalt be laid low enough by civill and inteſtine diſcords, which as a fire feedeth upon the people Eſ. 9.19. no man ſhall ſpare his brother. Or, like as an hungry man ſnatcheth on the right haud, and eateth on the left hand, and yet is not ſatisfied ver. 20. till thine unnaturall convulſions end in a deadly conſumption.

and thou ſhalt take hold, but ſhalt not deliver] Thou ſhalt catch up thy children, thy jewels &c. and think to ſecure them from the enemy, but ſhalt not be able. Of this miſery we had over-wofull experience in our late unnaturall garboiles.

and that which thou delivsreſt; will I give up to the ſword] Other judgements forerun the ſword: which, when they will not do, the ſword will then contemne the rod Ezek. 21.10 that is, it will ſet at naught whatever the rod hath done, and come furbiſhed and ſharpened for the ſlaughter.

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