Micah 3:9

"Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel that abhor justice, and pervert all equity."

"The general picture of a corrupt society given here by Micah agrees well with that presented by Isaiah for the south and by Amos and Hosea for the north."[13] There was a conscious widening of Micah's indictment in this verse. "In the first section (Micah 3:1-4), he had the courts in mind; here he includes them, but only as a part of a wider indictment."[14] Drawing upon Isaiah 3, Allen included the following as composing, "the Judean establishment that held in their hands the reins of society.:

"Generals and professional soldiers, judges, prophets, elders, army captains, aristocrats, counselors, sorcerers, priests, and soothsayers."[15]