Introduction

Micah, chapter three contains three oracles. They are bound together by a common theme of justice. The seers shall be disgraced and the diviners put to shame because there is no answer from god. But as for me, i am filled with power, with the spirit of the lord, and with justice and might to declare to jacob his transgression and to israel his sin. Because of you, zion shall be ploughed as a field,. jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height. Its heads give judgment for a bribe. Its priests teach for a price. Its prophets practise divination for money