John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Micah 3:3
Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skins from off them ,.... Like cannibals, flay them alive, and then eat their flesh: this signifies, as before, devouring their substance, only expressed in terms which still more set forth their savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, and cruelty. So the Targum, "who spoil the substance of my people, and their precious mammon they take from them;' and what aggravated their guilt was, that they were the Lord's people by profession and... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Micah 3:1-7
Princes and prophets, when they faithfully discharge the duty of their office, are to be highly honoured above other men; but when they betray their trust, and act contrary to it, they should hear of their faults as well as others, and shall be made to know that there is a God above them, to whom they are accountable; at his bar the prophet here, in his name, arraigns them. I. Let the princes hear their charge and their doom. The heads of Jacob, and the princes of the house of Israel, are... read more