Micah 3 - Introduction

This chapter is the continuation of the preceding. The offences of the great men are depicted in still more glaring colours; a bitter spirit, reminding us of Dante's Inferno, pervades the description in Micah 3:2. Next follows first, a reference to the judgment (Micah 3:4, as in Micah 2:5; Micah 2:10); then, a digression on the evil prophets (Micah 3:5, as in Micah 2:6; Micah 2:11), whose work is contrasted with the strictly ethical character of the true revelation (Micah 3:8, comp. Micah 2:7). The close of the entire prophecy is formed by an apostrophe to the grandees (Micah 3:9), and the declaration that Jerusalem will be utterly destroyed on account of its sins (Micah 3:12).