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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Micah 2:1 - 2:1
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Mic 2:1-13. Denunciation of the evils prevalent: The people’s unwillingness to hear the truth: Their expulsion from the land the fitting fruit of their sin: Yet Judah and Israel are hereafter to be restored.
devise ... work ... practise - They do evil not merely on a sudden impulse, but with deliberate design. As in the former chapter sins against the first table are reproved, so in this chapter sins against the second table. A gradation: “devise” is the conception of the evil purpose; “work” (Psa 58:2), or “fabricate,” the maturing of the scheme; “practice,” or “effect,” the execution of it.
because it is in the power of their hand - for the phrase see Gen 31:29; Pro 3:27. Might, not right, is what regulates their conduct. Where they can, they commit oppression; where they do not, it is because they cannot.