Micah 3:11

Is not the Lord among us?] the same mechanical faith in the presence of the Temple as in Jeremiah 7:4 : cp. 1 Samuel 4:3.

12. Cp. Jeremiah 26:17. The people of Jeremiah's time, angered by his prophecies of disaster, wished to put him to death. Some of the elders reminded them that, when Micah denounced a like judgment, Hezekiah, instead of killing him, repented at his words, and so averted the disaster. This implies that the religious minds of that time recognised how true prophecy is always conditional, and how the fulfilment of its predictions is conditional on the attitude men take to them. High places of the forest] better, 'heights in a wood.' The slopes of the ravines shall be overgrown with brushwood, out of which the bare scalp of the Temple-hill will rise.