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Micah 2:3

The Pulpit Commentary on Micah 2:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The sin shall be followed by its appropriate punishment. As they devised evil, God will devise a penalty. This family. The whole people (). An evil. A chastisement, a judgment (). Ye.

The prophet suddenly addresses them, the "family." Your necks. He speaks of the calamity as a heavy, galling yoke, from which they should be unable to free themselves (comp. ). This yoke is their conquest and exile at the hands of foreigners (comp.

). Haughtily. With head erect. Septuagint, ὀρθοί. Their pride shall be brought low. This time is evil; full of calamity, which is announced in the following verses. The words occur in , but the evil there spoken of is moral (comp.

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