Verš 2
Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Dt 32:1 - Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Iz 1:2 - Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Verš 3
For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
Iz 26:21 - For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Ž 115:3 - But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
Dt 32:13 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Dt 33:29 - Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Verš 4
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Ž 97:5 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Am 9:5 - And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Verš 8
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Jób 30:29 - I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Verš 10
Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
2Sam 1:20 - Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Jer 6:26 - O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Verš 11
Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
Iz 47:3 - Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
Verš 12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
Am 3:6 - Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Mich 1,1 - O Micheášovi a jeho vlasti pozri úvod k tomuto prorokovi. – K dobe, v ktorej Micheáš pôsobil, porov. Iz 1,1; Oz 1,1. – Hlavné mesto Izraelskej ríše, Samária, spomína sa tu miesto celej ríše, podobne aj Jeruzalem, hlavné mesto Južnej ríše.
Mich 1,2 - Porov. Dt 32,1; Iz 1,2; Mich 6,1 n.
Mich 1,3 - "Zo svojho miesta" rozumej: z neba.
Mich 1,4 - Porov. Sdc 5,4 n.; Ž 18,8 n.; 68,9; 97,2–6.
Mich 1,5 - Samária a Jeruzalem sú strediskami modloslužby svojich krajín.
Mich 1,7 - Samária pokladala svoje bohatstvo, ktoré jej umožnilo narobiť toľko modiel, za dar svojich falošných bohov, porov. Oz 2,12.
Mich 1,8 - O slove "nahý" pozri pozn. k Iz 20,2.
Mich 1,9 - Úder, ktorý zničil Samáriu, bol úder aj pre Júdsko. Nepriateľ väčšmi ohrozoval aj Júdsko.
Mich 1,10-16 - Spomína sa niekoľko júdskych miest vždy v súvise s nejakým nešťastím, ktoré má v pôvodine podobný význam alebo aspoň podobné znenie ako meno mesta. Tieto slovné hry v preklade nemožno podať. Okrem tohto je osnova týchto veršov dosť porušená.
Mich 1,10 - Prorok vyzýva júdskych utečencov, aby pred cudzincami zatajili svoje nešťastie, lebo tí by sa ich pohrome tešili. Ako príklad sa spomína filištínske mesto Get a fenické mesto Ako (Akko). – Bet Afra je asi Ofera, mesto na územía Benjamínovho kmeň.
Mich 1,11 - Mestá, spomínané v tomto verši, nepodarilo sa s istotou určiť. Zmysel je asi: Obyvatelia Šafiru sa ešte vyzývajú k úteku, obyvatelia Sánanu však už nemohli ujsť pred nepriateľom.
Mich 1,12 - Poloha Marotu je neznáma.
Mich 1,13 - O Lachisi pozri pozn. k 2 Kr 14,19. "Zapriahni do voza tátoše" rozumej: Ujdi, ako rýchlo len môžeš.
Mich 1,14 - Odbytné dával ženích verenici, keď ju prepúšťal. Aj Pán prepustí svoju nevernú snúbenicu. Meno Morešet znamená "verenica". O tomto meste pozri úvod. – Meno mesta Akzib znamená "lož, klamstvo". V tomto meste sa dožijú sklamania králi, ktorí sa spoliehali na silu a ľudskú pomoc. – Akzib bol v Júdsku, pozri Joz 15,44.
Mich 1,15 - O Marese porov. pozn. k 2 Krn 11,6–10. Toto mesto dostane nového, nepriateľského dediča. "Sláva Izraela" sú veľmoži, ktorí budú musieť utekať a schovávať sa v jaskyni Odolam ako kedysi Dávid, porov. 1 Sam 22,1; 2 Sam 23,13.
Mich 1,16 - Porov. Iz 15,2; 22,12; Jer 7,29; 16,6; 41,5; Am 8,10. – Synovia národa pôjdu do zajatia.
