Mic 3:1-3 | JFB | STEP | 1. princes —magistrates or judges. Is it not for you? —Is it not your special function ( )? judgment —justice. Ye sit in judgment on others; surely then ye ought to know the judgment for injustice which awaits yourselves ( ).

Micah 3:1-3

1. princes—magistrates or judges.

Is it not for you?—Is it not your special function (Jer 5:4, 5)?

judgment—justice. Ye sit in judgment on others; surely then ye ought to know the judgment for injustice which awaits yourselves (Ro 2:1).

2. pluck off their skin . . . flesh—rob their fellow countrymen of all their substance (Ps 14:4; Pr 30:14).

3. pot . . . flesh within . . . caldron—manifold species of cruel oppressions. Compare Eze 24:3, &c., containing, as to the coming punishment, the same figure as is here used of the sin: implying that the sin and punishment exactly correspond.