For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Ver. 26. For among my people are found wicked men.] This was as bad as to find a nettle in a garden, unchastity in a virgin, or the devil in paradise. All the Lord's people are or ought to be holy.
They lie in wait.] Or, Watch; or, Prey. See on Micah 7:2 .
They set a trap, they catch men.] To spoil them or slay them. Such a one was Otto, the Pope's Muscipulator (as the story styleth him), i.e., micecatcher, sent hither by Gregory IX to rake and take away our money. Tetzelius, sent by Leo X into Germany, was another.