Micah 2:3 - Exposition

The sin shall be followed by its appropriate punishment. As they devised evil, God will devise a penalty. This family. The whole people ( Amos 3:1 ). An evil. A chastisement, a judgment ( Amos 3:6 ). Ye . The prophet suddenly addresses them, the "family." Your necks. He speaks of the calamity as a heavy, galling yoke, from which they should be unable to free themselves (comp. Hosea 10:11 ). This yoke is their conquest and exile at the hands of foreigners (comp. Jeremiah 27:12 ). Haughtily . With head erect. Septuagint, ὀρθοί . Their pride shall be brought low. This time is evil; full of calamity, which is announced in the following verses. The words occur in Amos 5:13 , but the evil there spoken of is moral (comp. Ephesians 5:16 ).