The Pulpit Commentary on Micah 3:3

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

The idea of the last verse is repeated here with more emphasis. The people are treated by their rulers as cattle made to be eaten, flayed, broken up, chopped into pieces, boiled in the pot (comp Psalms 14:4).

(For an analogous figure, see Ezekiel 34:3-5.

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