by your crimes, given occasion to their being carried away captives, and
their children, by that means, never learning to praise the Lord.

2:10. Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that
uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous
corruption.

2:11. Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather
spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkeness: and it
shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.

Would God, etc... The prophet could have wished, out of his love to his
people, that he might be deceived in denouncing to them these evils that
were to fall upon them: but by conforming himself to the will of God, he
declares to them, that he is sent to prophesy, literally to let drop
upon them, the wine of God's indignation, with which they should be made
drunk; that is, stupified and cast down.

2:12. I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will
bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a
flock in the fold, as sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall
make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.

2:13. For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall
divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their
king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.

Micheas Chapter 3

For the sins of the rich oppressing the poor, of false prophets
flattering for lucre, and of judges perverting justice, Jerusalem and
the temple shall be destroyed.

3:1. And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house
of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,

3:2. You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their
skins from them and their flesh from their bones?

3:3. Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin
off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle,
and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

3:4. Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he
will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved wickedly
in their devices.

3:5. Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people
err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not
something into their mouth, they prepare war against him.

3:6. Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to
you instead of divination: and the sun shall go dow