Micah 1:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

Ver. 3. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place] That is, say they, out of Judea and his temple there, leaving it to the Chaldeans and Assyrians. See Ezekiel 3:12, and Chapter s 9-11, where God makes various withdrawals from the cherubins to the threshold, from thence to the east gate, from thence to mount Olivet, quite out of the city, Ezekiel 11:23, and when God was gone, then followed the fatal calamity, in the ruin of the city. But by God's coming forth out of his place here I conceive is meant his descending from heaven to do justice on this hypocritical nation, Isaiah 26:21, and because hypocritis nihil stupidius; hypocrites, resting on their external performances and privileges, will hardly be persuaded of any evil toward them. Micah 3:11, "Is not the Lord," say they, "among us? none evil can come upon us"; therefore we have here an emphatic Ecce, "Behold, the Lord cometh"; he is even upon the way already, and will be here with the first. He will come down as once at Sodom, when their sin was very grievous, Genesis 18:20, when they were overcharged with the superfluity of naughtiness; God came from heaven to give their land a vomit; and so he would do here; for unregenerate Israel was to God as Ethiopia, Amos 9:7, as the rulers of Sodom and people of Gomorrah, Isaiah 1:10 .

And tread upon the high places of the earth] The high and mighty ones, that, having gotten on the top of their hillocks as so many ants, think themselves so much the better and safer, repose confidence in their high places and strongholds, as Nebuchadnezzar did in his Babel, Edom in his clefts of the rocks, munitions of rocks, Obadiah 1:3, the rich fool in his heaps and hoards, Luke 12:19; these, with their false confidences, God will tread down in his anger, and trample them in his fury, as the mire of the streets; he will bring down their strength to the earth, and lay their honour in the dust, Isaiah 63:3; Isaiah 63:6 .

Micah 1:3

3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.