Micah 2:6

"Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these; reproaches shall not depart."

Due to difficulties in the text, some of the lines in Micah at this point are ambiguous in meaning; but the whole passage seems to refer to the objection against Micah's preaching registered by the false prophets who said, "Prophecy not." Certainly that is what happened during the preaching of Amos (Amos 7:10-13); and it most certainly occurred in the ministry of Micah also. Mays accepted such a meaning here:

"With an absolute assertion of their feeling of security, Micah's opponents deny the relevance of judgment to them. The disgrace of humiliating catastrophe, any misfortune that would leave them exposed to the insults of those who beheld their downfall, would never touch them."[11]

McKeating understood the meaning to be, "The prophet has been dismissed as a `ranter' and he is flinging the epithet back at his critics."[12] Certainly, there is inherent in these verses something of the idea that, "The corrupt leaders, using the false prophets, sought to stop Micah; but they were totally unsuccessful."