III.
(1) Hear, I pray you. — In the second division of his prophecy Micah protests against the evil influences exercised upon the people in high places. The princes, the prophets, and the priests, to whom their interests were confided, were guilty of wrong, oppression, and robbery.
Ye princes. — Rather, judges, magistrates; but a different word is used from that which was given to the chiefs in the old days “when the judges ruled.”