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MICAH CHAPTER 3
Micah reproveth the cruelty of the princes, Mic_3:1-4, and the falsehood of the prophets, Mic_3:5-7. His zeal in showing the sins of the princes, priests, and prophets, and their illgrounded security, Mic_3:8-12.
And I said: in further discharge of his prophetic office, and his direction from the Lord, the prophet proceeds to preach.
Hear; attend diligently, and give good ear. I pray you: being to address to governors, he entreats their attention, as we have the Hebrew particle here rendered, which might have been rendered now, and so the Gallic version doth render it, and the particle signifieth both.
O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; you that are by birth heads of the families, and by office princes and rulers in Israel and Jacob, i.e. in the kingdom both of the ten tribes, and more particularly the two tribes, as appears from the last verse of this chapter.
Is it not for you? are you not bound by office? do not men expect? doth not God require? doth not the public weal engage you to be well skilled in the laws of God?
To know judgment; understand, approve, conform to and rule by equity, and the just laws of your God. You, princes, magistrates, and ruling officers, ought to know and do judgment and justice; you of all men should know and do right.