gment, and to love mercy, and to walk
solicitous with thy God.

6:9. The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to
them that fear thy name: hear O ye tribes, and who shall approve it?

6:10. As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures
of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath.

Full of wrath, etc... That is, highly provoking in the sight of God.

6:11. Shall I justify wicked balances, and the deceitful weights of the
bag?

6:12. By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the
inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in
their mouth.

6:13. And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.

6:14. Thou shalt eat, but shalt not be filled: and thy humiliation shall
be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not save:
and those whom thou shalt save, I will give up to the sword.

6:15. Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap: thou shalt tread the olives,
but shalt not be anointed with oil: and the new wine, but shalt not
drink the wine.

6:16. For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the
house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I
should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing,
and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

The statutes of Amri, etc... The wicked ways of Amri and Achab,
idolatrous kings.

Micheas Chapter 7

The prophet laments, that notwithstanding all his preaching, the
generality are still corrupt in their manners: therefore their
desolation is at hand: but they shall be restored again and prosper; and
all mankind shall be redeemed by Christ.

7:1. Woe is me, for I am become as one that gleaneth in autumn the
grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat, my soul desired the
first ripe figs.

7:2. The holy man is perished out of the earth, and there is none
upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, every one hunteth his
brother to death.

7:3. The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and
the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of
his soul, and they have troubled it.

7:4. He that is best among them, is as a brier, and he that is
righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy
visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction.

7:5. Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of
thy mouth from her that sleepe