Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Which say to the seers, See not - (Micah 2:6; Micah 2:11; Micah 3:5).
See not - as you now do, foretelling misfortune. Prophecy not ... right things. Not that they avowedly requested this, but their conduct virtually expressed it. No man, professedly, wishes to be deceived; but many seek a kind of teaching which is deceit; and which, if they would examine, they might know to be such (1 Kings 22:13). The Jews desired success to be foretold as the issue of their league with Egypt, though ill had been announced by God's prophet as the result: this constituted the "deceits."