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Mic_6:14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.
Ver. 14. Thou shall eat, but not be satisfied] Either as not having enough to satisfy, but prisoner’s pittance, so much only as will keep life and soul together; or else, troubled with a bulimy, an appetitus caninus, desire of a dog, a weakness of the digestive faculty, so that thy meat feeds thee not: the staff of it being also broken by God, the nutritive property of it being taken away. {See Trapp on "Hag_1:6"}
And thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee] Thou shalt be laid low enough by civil and intestine discords, which as a fire feedeth upon the people, Isa_9:19, no man shall spare his brother. Or like as a hungry man snatcheth on the right hand and eateth on the left hand, and yet is not satisfied, Isa_9:20, till thine unnatural convulsions end in a deadly consumption.
And thou shalt take hold, but shall not deliver] Thou shalt catch up thy children, thy jewels, and think to secure them from the enemy, but shalt not be able. Of this misery we had overly woeful experience in our late unnatural garboils.
And that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword] Other judgments forerun the sword; which, when they will not do, the sword will then contemn the rod, Eze_21:10, that is, it will set at nought whatever the rod hath done, and come furbished and sharpened for the slaughter.