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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Micah 2:3 - 2:3
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against this family - against the nation, and especially against those reprobated in Mic 2:1, Mic 2:2.
I devise an evil - a happy antithesis between God’s dealings and the Jews’ dealings (Mic 2:1). Ye “devise evil” against your fellow countrymen; I devise evil against you. Ye devise it wrongfully, I by righteous retribution in kind.
from which ye shall not remove your necks - as ye have done from the law. The yoke I shall impose shall be one which ye cannot shake off. They who will not bend to God’s “easy yoke” (Mat 11:29, Mat 11:30), shall feel His iron yoke.
go haughtily - (Compare Note, see on Jer 6:28). Ye shall not walk as now with neck haughtily uplifted, for the yoke shall press down your “neck.”
this time is evil - rather, “for that time shall be an evil time,” namely, the time of the carrying away into captivity (compare Amo 5:13; Eph 5:16).