Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 2:3

3 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold against this family do I devise an evil , from which ye shall not remove your necks , neither shall ye go haughtily , for this time is evil .

For this great, inhumane, cruel oppression.

The Lord by his Pro[illegible: 1 letter]het declareth what he will do, and adviseth them to consider it, for 'tis a most manifest retaliation or punishing the offenders, so that every one may see God deals with them, as they dealt with their oppressed Neighbours.

They devised, now God will devise, theirs was evil against others, God will devise evil against them, theirs was evil of sin, Gods is an evil of just punishment, against their Family, as they devised evil against the Family of their poor Neighbours. God will bring the Assyrian power upon them.

They laid snares where open force would not suffice, so that the poor could not get out of their hands, but were empoverisht and enslaved, so God will deal with them by the Assyrian, from whose power they shall not escape.

You have made others hang the head, so shall you now.

You great ones have made it an evil time, evil for sin against me, and the innocent, and for cryes and griefs to the poor, I will make it an evil time, full of penal calamities and miseries on the whole Family or Posterity of Iacob.