Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 3:7

7 Then shall the seers be ashamed , and the diviners confounded : yea, they shall all cover their lips , for there is no answer of God .

In the dayes of this Calamity, which shall confute all the flattering promises of these Prophets.

Who call'd themselves, were accounted by others, and were advised with as men that had Visions from God, were Prophets in name and repute with the deceived people.

Their Impostures being detected they shall be covered with shame, the people shall talk what they are, and tell them to their faces where ever they meet them that they are false and lying Varlets, not worthy to live, and the very Consciences of these men shall then fly in their faces and upbraid them.

Diviners here are seers, and being confounded the same with ashamed, this ingemination adds to the thing spoken, at least a fuller verification of it.

So Lepers did, Lev. 13.45. and men ashamed, and Mourners did thus, Ezek. 24.17, 22. So these shall mourn and pine in their shame.

God doth not answer them, rather because the Answer they had formerly given and pretended to be from God now appears not to have been from him, they should therefore by the sentence of the Law be stoned, Deut. 13.10. & Zech. 13.3. so Elijah dealt with Baals Prophets, and 'tis like these false Prophets detected might fear the like from those they had deceived.

Marginal references: Heb. upper lip.