We shall have some account of this prophet in the first verse of the book of his prophecy; and therefore shall here only observe that, being contemporary with the prophet Isaiah (only that he began to prophesy a little after him), there is a near resemblance between that prophet’s prophecy and…

Here is, I. A general account of this prophet and his prophecy, Mic. 1:1. This is prefixed for the satisfaction of all that read and hear the prophecy of this book, who will give the more credit to it when they know the author and his authority. 1.

We have here a long train of mourners attending the funeral of a ruined kingdom. I. The prophet is himself chief mourner : I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked, as a man distracted with grief.