In this chapter we have, I. The sins with which the people of Israel are charged—covetousness and oppression, fraudulent and violent practices , dealing barbarously, even with women and children, and other harmless people, Mic. 2:8–9.

Here is, I. The injustice of man contriving the evil of sin, Mic. 2:1–2. God was coming forth against this people to destroy them, and here he shows what was the ground of his controversy with them; it is that which is often mentioned as a sin that hastens the ruin of nations and families as much…

Here are two sins charged upon the people of Israel, and judgments denounced against them for each, such judgments as exactly answer the sin—persecuting God’s prophets and oppressing God’s poor. I.

After threatenings of wrath, the chapter here concludes, as is usual in the prophets, with promises of mercy, which were in part fulfilled when the Jews returned out of Babylon, and had their full accomplishment in the kingdom of the Messiah. Their grievances shall be all redressed. 1.